US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Device-independent audio for electronic devices" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,897, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device-independent audio for electronic devices" was invented by Mehrez Souden (Los Angeles), Jason Wung (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jonathan D. Sheaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua D. Atkins (Lexington, Mass.) and Siyuan Yuan (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to providing device-independent audio for electronic devices. In one or more implementations, microphone data captured by multiple microphones at an electronic device may be provided to a device-specific audio generalizer at the electronic device. The devic...