US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Own-voice suppression in wearables" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,079, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Own-voice suppression in wearables" was invented by Jacob Ryan Donley (Issaquah, Wash.) and Vladimir Tourbabin (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for own-voice suppression using separate sound filters. Sound from a local area is captured using an acoustic sensor array. The captured sound includes noise from the local area and the user's voice. A first set of statistical properties associated with the noise and a second set of statistical properties associated with the user's voice are determined. A f...