ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,866, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).
"Adaptive acoustic echo cancellation for a stereo audio signal" was invented by Justin Sconza (Chicago) and Bijal Joshi (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adaptively providing acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) for a stereo audio signal associated with at least one microphone are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include determining, based at least in part on detecting a reference signal associated with a channel sample portion of the stereo audio signal, a panning state of the stereo audio signal. A hard-pann...