US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 4 for "Data augmentation system and method for multi-microphone systems" (Austrian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,514, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data augmentation system and method for multi-microphone systems" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.), Ljubomir Milanovic (Vienna), Philipp Salletmayr (Austria, Austria), Rong Gong (Vienna) and Patrick A. Naylor (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining one or more speech signals from a first device, thus defining one or more first device speech signals. One or more speech signals may be obtained from a second device, thus defining one or...