ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,100, issued on April 14, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"System and method for optimized audio mixing" was invented by Justin Joseph Sconza (Chicago), Guillaume Lamy (Chicago) and Bijal Joshi (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for receiving, at a plurality of audio channels, respective audio signals captured by one or more microphones; based on a speech quality determination for each signal, identifying, in real time, a first subset of the audio channels as capturing speech audio, and a second subset of the audio channels as capturing noise...