US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Mask non-linear processor for acoustic echo cancellation" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,123, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Mask non-linear processor for acoustic echo cancellation" was invented by Justin Joseph Sconza (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic echo cancellation systems and methods are provided that can generate a continuous mask value that can be used as a gain of a non-linear processor. Communication between a loudspeaker and the non-linear processor can be utilized to adjust the threshold of the non-linear processor when the loudspeaker is active to assist in suppressing far end single talk leakage. The systems and methods can improve the remova...