US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Oct. 7 for "Event detections for noise cancelling headphones" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,743, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Event detections for noise cancelling headphones" was invented by Amalendu Iyer (Palo Alto, Calif.), Manu Rastogi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mithra Vankipuram (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Srikanth Kuthuru (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of microphones to record background sounds, a noise cancellation component to generate an inverted signal to negate the background sounds from an output signal, a memory to store sound patterns associated with known e...