ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,458, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Jawbone Innovations LLC (Marshall, Texas).
"Advanced speech encoding dual microphone configuration (DMC)" was invented by Gregory C. Burnett (Northfield, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone array is described for use in ultra-high acoustical noise environments. The microphone array includes two directional close-talk microphones. The two microphones are separated by a short distance so that one microphone picks up more speech than the other. The microphone array can be used along with an adaptive noise removal program to remove a significant portion of noise from a speech signal o...