US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus and methods for detecting a microphone condition" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,038, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus and methods for detecting a microphone condition" was invented by Anindya Bhattacharya (Austin, Texas), Bhoodev Kumar (Austin, Texas), Jaimin Mehta (Austin, Texas), Yongsheng Shi (Austin, Texas), Aleksey S. Khenkin (Austin, Texas) and John L Melanson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for detecting a microphone condition of a microphone, the method comprising: applying an electrical stimulus to a microphone; measuring an electrical response to the electrical stimulus at the microphone; comparing the electrical respons...