ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,742, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"System and method for eliminating noise cancellation artifacts from head movement" was invented by Kevin J. Bastyr (Franklin, Mich.) and Tao Feng (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, an active noise cancellation (ANC) system is provided. The system includes at least one loudspeaker to project anti-noise sound in response to receiving a first anti-noise signal and at least one microphone to provide an error signal indicative of noise and the anti-noise sound. The system further includes a head tracker senso...