US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on April 29 for "Networked automixer systems and methods" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,584, issued on April 29, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Networked automixer systems and methods" was invented by Gregory H. Canfield (Niles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for networked audio automixing using array microphones and an aggregator unit that participate in making a common gating decision to determine which channels to gate on and off. Through the use of such a network of array microphones having the capability to generate submix audio signals and reduced bandwidth metrics, as well as AEC processing capability, array microphone lobe selection can be en...