ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,927, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Fast response audio signal processing system" was invented by Dongyang Tang (San Diego) and Michael Carfore (Quincy, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure pertains to an audio signal processing system that offers low latency without sacrificing various desirable features such as large dynamic operating range and low power consumption. Low latency is achieved by generating a feed-forward signal that is based in part on performing high-pass filtering and threshold crossing detection upon an amplified transducer signal. The feed-forward signal is provided to...