US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Directional voice sensing using coherent optical detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,096, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Directional voice sensing using coherent optical detection" was invented by Eran Tal (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Ariel Lipson (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a microphone, an array of coherent optical emitters, an array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors, and a processor. Each balanced coherent optical vibration sensor in the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors is paired with a coherent optical emitter in the array of coherent optical emitters. The processor is configured to analyze a set...