ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,910, issued on July 14, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).
"Partially adaptive audio beamforming systems and methods" was invented by Israel Cohen (Haifa, Israel) and Baruch Berdugo (Kiryat Ata, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Partially adaptive audio beamforming systems and methods are provided that enable improved acoustic echo cancellation of sound played on a loudspeaker that is in close proximity to a microphone array in an audio device. A stored beamformer parameter, such as an inverse covariance matrix, can be utilized by a frequency domain beamformer to generate a beamformed signal. The overa...