US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 29 for "Multi-channel speech compression system and method" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,595, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-channel speech compression system and method" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.), Patrick A. Naylor (Reading, Great Britain) and Uwe Helmut Jost (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions associated with a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. Acoustic relative transfer functions of at least a pair of audio acquisition devi...