ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,853, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Audio encoding with compressed ambience" was invented by Tomlinson Holman (Palm Springs, Calif.), Christopher T. Eubank (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Joshua D. Atkins (Los Angeles), Soenke Pelzer (San Jose, Calif.) and Dirk Schroeder (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio device can sense sound in a physical environment using a plurality of microphones to generate a plurality of microphone signals. Clean speech can be extracted from microphone signals. Ambience can be extracted from the microphone signals. The clean speech can be encoded at a firs...