ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,871, issued on March 25.
"Devices, systems, and methods of noise reduction" was invented by Craig Fraser (Victoria, Canada), Daniel Davies (Victoria, Canada), John Horstmann (San Jose, Calif.) and Lars Christensen (Sidney, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of real-time noise reduction including generating spectral data using temporally localized spectral representations of a received audio signal, determining detection of voice by comparing first and second filtered data, and generating noise-reduced audio output by attenuating noise based on the determined detection of voice. The first and second filtered data are form...