ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,003, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GN AUDIO A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Speakerphone with beamformer-based conference characterization and related methods" was invented by Karim Haddad (Ballerup, Denmark), Clement Laroche (Ballerup, Denmark) and Rasmus Kongsgaard Olsson (Ballerup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speakerphone is disclosed. The speakerphone comprises an interface, a speaker, a plurality of microphones, a processor, and a memory. The speakerphone is configured to: obtain a first plurality of microphone input signals of a conference; determine a first plurality of beamforming parameters; obtain a first internal...