US Patent Issued to Orange on Nov. 4 for "Estimating an optimized mask for processing acquired sound data" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,825, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Estimating an optimized mask for processing acquired sound data" was invented by Alexandre Guerin (Chatillon, France) and Henrique Tomaz-Amorim (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for processing sound data acquired by a plurality of microphones. The method includes: on the basis of the signals acquired by the plurality of microphones, determining a direction of arrival of a sound originating from at least one sound source of interest; applying spatial filtering to the sound data as a function of the direction of arrival o...