ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,173, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Audio processing device and method for acoustic angle of arrival detection using audio signals of a virtual rotating microphone" was invented by Julio Cesar Zamora Esquivel (Sacramento, Calif.), Hector Cordourier Maruri (Guadalajara, Mexico), Jose Rodrigo Camacho Perez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Paulo Lopez Meyer (Zapopan, Mexico), Jose Torres Ortega (Zapopan, Mexico) and Alejandro Ibarra Von Borstel (Manchaca, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing device and method uses audio signals from a virtual rotating microphone for acoustic angle of a...