ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,731, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noise canceling apparatus, noise canceling method, and electronic equipment" was invented by Masaomi Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiver sensitivity deterioration in a wireless receiver section due to radio noise is reduced.A noise acquisition section acquires noise generated from a noise source. A noise adjustment section obtains a noise canceling signal by adjusting a phase and a gain of the noise acquired by the noise acquisition section. Subsequently, an antenna section transmits the noise canceling signal obtained by the noise adju...