ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,029, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for acoustic transparency" was invented by Jacob Jon Bean (Vista, Calif.), Rogerio Guedes Alves (Macomb Township, Mich.), Kamlesh Lakshminarayanan (San Diego) and Walter Andres Zuluaga (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for audio signal processing are presented. A device for audio signal processing includes a memory configured to store audio data and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to use an adaptation filter to adapt update filter coeffici...