US Patent Issued to Biamp Systems on May 27 for "Measuring speech intelligibility of an audio environment" (Oregon, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,293, issued on May 27, was assigned to Biamp Systems LLC (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Measuring speech intelligibility of an audio environment" was invented by Eugene Goff (Macedon, N.Y.), Ray Dippert (Beaverton, Ore.), Matthew V. Kotvis (Portland, Ore.) and Samarth Behura (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of operation may include initiating an automated tuning procedure, detecting via one or more microphones a sound measurement associated with an output of one or more speakers at two or more locations, determining a number of speech transmission index (STI) values equal to a number of microphones, and averagin...