US Patent Issued to Audio-Technica on Oct. 28 for "Beamforming microphone system, sound pickup program and setting program for beamforming microphone system, beamforming microphone setting device, and beamforming microphone setting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,447, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Audio-Technica Corp. (Tokyo).

"Beamforming microphone system, sound pickup program and setting program for beamforming microphone system, beamforming microphone setting device, and beamforming microphone setting method" was invented by Kazuhiro Onizuka (Tokyo), Eri Nakano (Tokyo) and Shinken Kanemaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamforming microphone system capable of reducing a processing load caused by calculation of directivity and flexibly setting an area where sound is picked up. A beamforming microphone system according to the present invention includes: a plurality of microph...