ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,057, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Self-calibrating microphone and loudspeaker arrays for wearable audio devices" was invented by Jonathan D. Sheaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel K. Boothe (San Francisco), Martin E. Johnson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Neal D. Evans (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nikolas T. Vitt (Redwood City, Calif.), Christopher T. Eubank (Mountain View, Calif.), Peter V. Jupin (Copenhagen, Denmark), Symeon Delikaris Manias (Los Angeles) and Shai Messingher Lang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for self-calibrating a sound pickup process that uses a microphone array in a ...