US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Distributed teleconferencing using personalized enhancement models" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,738, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distributed teleconferencing using personalized enhancement models" was invented by Ross Cutler (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to distributed teleconferencing. Some implementations can employ personalized enhancement models to enhance microphone signals for participants in a call. Further implementations can perform proximity-based mixing, where microphone signals received from devices in a particular room can be omitted from playback signals transmitted to other devices in the same room. These techni...