ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,047, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Acoustic echo cancellation" was invented by Carl Nuzman (Murray Hill, N.J.) and Wouter Lanneer (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to acoustic echo cancellation using adaptive filtering modules. An apparatus for acoustic echo cancellation is configured to process a first input signal using a first acoustic echo cancellation module to obtain a first prediction signal and to process a second input signal using a second acoustic echo cancellation module to obtain a second prediction signal. The first input sign...