ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,917, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NUREVA INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"System for dynamically forming a virtual microphone coverage map from a combined array to any dimension, size and shape based on individual microphone element locations" was invented by Kael Blais (Englewood, Colo.), Richard Dale Ferguson (Okotoks, Canada), Aleksander Radisavljevic (Victoria, Canada), David Gregory Popovich (Ottawa) and Linshan Li (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically dynamically forming a virtual microphone coverage map using a combined microphone array in a shared 3D space is provided. The system includes a ...