US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Audio system that uses an optical microphone" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,585, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Audio system that uses an optical microphone" was invented by Morteza Khaleghimeybodi (Bothell, Wash.), Antonio John Miller (Woodinville, Wash.), Liliana Ruiz Diaz (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Redmond, Wash.), Maik Andre Scheller (Redmond, Wash.), Robin Sharma (Redmond, Wash.), Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad (Redmond, Wash.), Guohua Wei (Redmond, Wash.) and Gizem Tabak (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system including an optical microphone and an audio controller. The optical microphone includes a light sou...