ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,190, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Casella Holdings Ltd. (Great Britain).

"MEMS microphone with ingress protection" was invented by Aamir Qureshi (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Brandon Trainer (Bedfordshire, Great Britain) and Andy Mitham (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone assembly includes a housing defining an acoustic cavity having a sound inlet for transmitting a sound in to the acoustic cavity. A micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) microphone is located at least partially within the housing adjacent the acoustic cavity. The MEMS microphone includes a microphone aperture acoustically couple...