ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,566, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Generating microphone arrays from user devices" was invented by Clayton Woodward Bavor Jr. (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alex Olwal (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a virtual microphone array according including identifying a plurality of microphones, identifying a relative position in space of each of the plurality of microphones, generating a virtual microphone array based on the plurality of microphones and the relative position in space of each of the plurality of microphones, sensing audio at each of the plurality ...