US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 28 for "Head-worn computing device with microphone beam steering" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,448, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Head-worn computing device with microphone beam steering" was invented by Steven Benjamin Goldberg (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed devices and methods provide beamforming for a head-worn microphone array that can adapt to changes in the user's head position/orientation. The microphone array may be part of a head-worn computing device, which can be configured to automatically detect a direction for the beamforming based on computer-assisted recognition of a conversation with a participant. After the participant is identif...