US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for processing remote active speech during a call" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,739, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for processing remote active speech during a call" was invented by Joseph M. Williams (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Eric H. Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco), Darin B. Adler (Los Gatos, Calif.) and David L. Biderman (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first device, which includes performing an audio call with a second device by transmitting a microphone signal as an uplink signal and receiving a downlink signal for driving a first speaker and while performing the audio call, performing a j...