ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,926, issued on July 1, was assigned to New Audio LLC (New York).

"Multi-microphone headset" was invented by Thomas C. Wilson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Clayton J. Pipkin (Highland Park, N.J.), Marten Wallby (Malmo, Sweden), Zachary Hellman (New York) and Jonathan Levine (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio device includes one or more earcups, at least one of the earcups including a boom connector port, a connection detector connected to the boom connector port and configured to detect a connection state at the boom connector port, one or more first microphones positioned in the one or more earcups, audio processing circuitry, and ...