US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Enhanced techniques for reducing audio feedback during communication sessions" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,785, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced techniques for reducing audio feedback during communication sessions" was invented by Hong Wang Sodoma (Redmond, Wash.), Warren M. Lam (Redmond, Wash.) and Vinod Prakash (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques provide enhanced techniques for reducing audio feedback during communication sessions. A system utilizes beacon signals to determine if two or more client devices are co-located. The system uses two different beacon signals communicated from two different devices if one of the devices joins a ...