US Patent Issued to SHURE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS on April 7 for "Wideband doubletalk detection for optimization of acoustic echo cancellation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,261, issued on April 7, was assigned to SHURE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS INC. (Niles, Ill.).

"Wideband doubletalk detection for optimization of acoustic echo cancellation" was invented by Wesley Lethem (Chicago), Justin Joseph Sconza (Chicago) and Christopher George Rieger (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic echo cancellation systems and methods are provided that improve the quality of the audio transmitted from by an audio device a near end to a far end when a doubletalk condition is present, including allowing certain subbands of an echo-cancelled signal to be less attenuated by overriding certain gains of subbands of the ec...