US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on April 8 for "Adaptive noise suppression for virtual meeting/remote education" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,368, issued on April 8, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Adaptive noise suppression for virtual meeting/remote education" was invented by Danqing Sha (Shanghai), Amy N. Seibel (Newton, Mass.), Eric Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.) and Zhen Jia (Pudong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes performing sound quality operations. Microphone arrays are used to cancel background noise and to enhance speech. With arrays at each environment of each user participating in a call, a first microphone array can cancel or suppress background noise and a second array can generate enhanced speech for transm...