US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on April 22 for "Auto focus, auto focus within regions, and auto placement of beamformed microphone lobes with inhibition functionality" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,479, issued on April 22, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Auto focus, auto focus within regions, and auto placement of beamformed microphone lobes with inhibition functionality" was invented by Dusan Veselinovic (Chicago), Mathew T. Abraham (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Michael Ryan Lester (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Avinash K. Vaidya (Riverwoods, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Array microphone systems and methods that can automatically focus and/or place beamformed lobes in response to detected sound activity are provided. The automatic focus and/or placement of the beamformed lobes can be inhibited...