US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for controlling audibility of sound sources" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,861, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for controlling audibility of sound sources" was invented by Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland), Hannu Pulakka (Pirkkala, Finland) and Toni Makinen (Pirkkala, 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 controlling amplification and/or attenuation of sound sources based on their position relative to an electronic device. The apparatus includes circuitry for obtaining audio signals from a plurality of microphones of an electronic devic...