ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,159, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Suppressing spatial noise in multi-microphone devices" was invented by Juha Vilkamo (Helsinki) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least two microphone audio signals; determine audio data including different directivity configurations that are able to capture sound from substantially a same or similar direction; determine at least one value related to the sound arriving from at least the same or similar direction based on the audio data; determine further audio ...