ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,413, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Mitigating effects of wind in audio data" was invented by Kuan-Chieh Yen (Foster City, Calif.), Kunal Atitkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Madhuri Saraf (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhouhui Miao (Saratoga, Calif.) and Carlo Murgia (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, techniques to process audio signals to lessen the impact that wind and/or other environmental noise has upon the resulting quality of audio signals output on speaker(s) of wireless earbuds or other headphones. For example, the techniques may determine a level o...