ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,939, issued on July 1, was assigned to GN AUDIO A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Microphone apparatus" was invented by Clement Laroche (Ballerup, Denmark), Pejman Mowlaee (Ballerup, Denmark), Rasmus Kongsgaard Olsson (Ballerup, Denmark) and Michael Sodal Schwartz (Ballerup, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a microphone apparatus and an associated computer implemented method. The microphone apparatus comprising a main microphone array, an adaptive beamformer, a fixed beamformer, and an analyzer. The analyzer is configured to determine a first relative score based on the output of the fixed beamformer an...