US Patent Issued to Advanced Technology Development on Oct. 7 for "Wired and wireless microphone arrays" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. RE50,627, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Technology Development Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Wired and wireless microphone arrays" was invented by Jacob G. Appelbaum (Gainesville, Fla.), Paul Wilkinson Dent (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Leonid Krasny (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic noise canceling microphone arrangement and processor that uses a principal microphone and other microphones that may be incidentally or deliberately located in the vicinity of the principal microphone in order to derive an audio signal of enhanced signal-to-background noise ratio. In one implementation, the principal and incidental microph...