ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,137, issued on June 24, was assigned to NUREVA INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"System and method utilizing discrete microphones and virtual microphones to simultaneously provide in-room amplification and remote communication during a collaboration session" was invented by David Gregory Popovich (Ottawa), Mahdi Javer (Calgary, Canada) and David Gordon Johnson (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated audio microphone system simultaneously provides in-room amplification and remote communication during a collaboration session with one or more local participants in a shared space and one or more remote participants. The inte...