US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 25 for "Microphone array beamforming control" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,462, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Microphone array beamforming control" was invented by Scott David Kurtz (Mount Laurel, N.J.) and Michael Sallas (Radnor, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for controlling source tracking and delaying beamforming in a microphone array system. A source tracker may continuously determine a direction of an audio source. A source tracker controller may pause the source tracking of the source tracker if a user may continue to speak to the system. The source tracker controller may resume the source track...