ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,774, issued on May 27, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using circular convolutional network" was invented by Jihwan Youn (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Satish Ravindran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ruud van Sloun (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ryan Haoyun Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for estimating direction of arrival are disclosed. A device includes a signal processing unit that includes processing circuitry and memory coupled to the processing circuitry, where the processing circuitry includes multiple ...