ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,060, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to determine a location of an audio source" was invented by Krzysztof Pawlak (Gdynia, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to determine a physical location of an audio source are disclosed. One such apparatus includes a microphone set identifier to identify ordered microphone sets from a plurality of microphones and an estimated source location calculator to calculate estimated source locations for the audio source. The apparatus further includes an estimation error calculator to c...