US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for audio focusing" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,582, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for audio focusing" was invented by Mikko Tapio Tammi (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for audio focusing in mobile devices. In some examples the apparatus includes circuitry for providing a plurality of beams for processing microphone audio signals. The apparatus can also include circuitry for analysing the plurality of beams to determine one or more parameter values based on the microphone audio signals in a plurality o...