ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,895, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Dynamic wind detection for adaptive noise cancellation (ANC)" was invented by Wilbur Lawrence (Tempe, Ariz.) and John Bryan-Merrett (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Noise cancellation operations consume battery power, and thus techniques for reducing power consumption by performing power management in active noise cancellation in consumer devices are beneficial for the user. One example power management technique described according to embodiments of this disclosure allow wind noise detection to switch between a high-power higher-accur...