ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,994, issued on July 22, was assigned to ELNO (Argenteuil, France).

"Electronic processing device and processing method, associated acoustic apparatus and computer program" was invented by Arthur Henri Lacroix (Fremecourt, France), Clement Jean-Baptiste Albert (Colombes, France), Mathieu Clement Nicolas Dexheimer (Joinville le Pont, France) and Thierry Pierre Francois Gaiffe (Saint Germain en Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electronic processing device for an acoustic apparatus including a first air conduction microphone and a second bone conduction microphone, configured for being connected to the first and second mic...