ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,035, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for self-attention-based combining of multichannel signals for speech processing" was invented by Rong Gong (Vienna), Carl Benjamin Quillen (Brookline, Mass.), Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.) and Ljubomir Milanovic (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a plurality of signals from a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of channels. A weighted multichannel representation of the plurality of channels may be generated. A plurality of ...