US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Speech processing optimizations based on microphone array" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,727, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech processing optimizations based on microphone array" was invented by Shiva Kumar Sundaram (Mountain View, Calif.), Minhua Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Anirudh Raju (San Jose, Calif.), Spyridon Matsoukas (Hopkinton, Mass.), Arindam Mandal (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kenichi Kumatani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for utilizing microphone array information for acoustic modeling are disclosed. Audio data may be received from a device having a microphone array configuration. Microphone configuration data may also be received ...