US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on April 29 for "Service for targeted crowd sourced audio for virtual interaction" (Texas, Illinois, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,007, issued on April 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Service for targeted crowd sourced audio for virtual interaction" was invented by James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Timothy Innes (Atlanta), Nigel Bradley (McDonough, Ga.) and Nikhil Marathe (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio generation system is provided to enable coordinated control of multiple IoT devices for audio collection and distribution of one or more audio sources according to location and user preference. The audio generation system enables a location sensitive acoustic control of sound, bot...