US Patent Issued to Knowles Electronics on May 27 for "Adapters for microphones and combinations thereof" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,019, issued on May 27, was assigned to Knowles Electronics LLC (Itasca, Ill.).

"Adapters for microphones and combinations thereof" was invented by Janice LoPresti (Itasca, Ill.), Steve Kearey (Carpentersville, Ill.) and Usha Murthy (Lisle, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone assembly can include a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) form-factor adapter housing including an interface opening and an adapter housing acoustic port and a MEMS microphone disposed at least partially within the MEMS form-factor adapter housing. The MEMS microphone can include a MEMS microphone housing comprising a MEMS microphone acoustic port...