US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on Dec. 2 for "Adjustable lobe shape for array microphones" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,023, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Adjustable lobe shape for array microphones" was invented by Brent Robert Shumard (Mount Prospect, Ill.) and Mathew T. Abraham (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Array microphone systems and methods having adjustable lobe shapes are provided. The lobe shapes of pickup patterns in an array microphone may be adjusted by weighting the audio signals of subsets of the microphone elements that make up the array. The lobe shapes may be adjusted in a direction independent of a steering vector of the lobe. Users may have greater control ...