ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,546, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices, methods, systems, and media for spatial perception assisted noise identification and cancellation" was invented by Qiang Xu (Richmond Hill, Canada), Vijaya Krishna Mulpuri (Aurora, Canada) and Xuan Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, systems, and media for selectively cancelling sounds at a listener's location are described. Sound sources are identified in the listener's environment using microphones and/or remote devices associated with specific sound sources. A user is presented with information iden...