ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,220, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Dynamic control of multiple feedforward microphones in active noise reduction devices" was invented by Richard L. Pyatt (Fitchburg, Mass.) and Emery M. Ku (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology described in this document can be embodied in an earpiece of an active noise reduction (ANR) device. The earpiece includes a plurality of microphones, wherein each of the plurality of microphones is usable for capturing ambient audio to generate input signals for both an ANR mode of operation and a hear-through mode of operation of the ANR device. The ...