US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Multi-channel speech compression system and method" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,620, issued on Oct. 21, 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 encoding audio encounter information of a reference audio acquisition device of a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. Location information may be estimated, via a machine vi...