ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,827, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multi-directional wind noise abatement" was invented by Limin Zhou (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic device for use in a wearable device (e.g., smart watch) is described. The acoustic device includes a curved primary audio waveguide and a plurality of secondary waveguides. The curved primary waveguide has two ports that open to a local area on opposite ends of the primary audio waveguide. The primary waveguide is coupled to a plurality of secondary audio waveguides. Each secondary audio waveguide couples a different...