US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Audio impulse origin and response path simulation" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,867, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Audio impulse origin and response path simulation" was invented by Sean Matthew Zimmerman (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating an origin of an audio impulse in a real-world environment performed by computing system is disclosed. Audio signals are received from a microphone array. The audio signals characterize an audio impulse generated in the real-world environment. Locations in the real-world environment of the plurality of microphones are received. A device related transfer function (DRTF) of the micropho...