ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,367, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enhancing audio using multiple recording devices" was invented by Dimitri Kanevsky (Ossining, N.Y.) and Golan Pundak (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for enhancing audio are detailed herein. An audio stream and a second audio stream can be received. From these audio streams, a first audio source and a second audio source are extracted. A conversation between the first audio source and a third audio source that occurs within the audio streams is identified. An updated audio stream is generated that enhances the first audio source ...