ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,207, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).
"Proximity microphone" was invented by Brent Robert Shumard (Mount Prospect, Ill.), Mark Gilbert (Palatine, Ill.), Emily Ann Wigley (Chicago) and Roger Stephen Grinnip III (Lake Zurich, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a microphone array comprising a first plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in a first cluster formed by directing a front face of the microphone elements towards a center of the first cluster, and a second plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in a second cluster formed by direc...