US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on March 11 for "Audio beamforming with nulling control system and methods" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,526, issued on March 11, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Audio beamforming with nulling control system and methods" was invented by Wenshun Tian (Palatine, Ill.) and Michael Ryan Lester (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio beamforming systems and methods that enable more precise control of lobes and nulls of an array microphone are provided. Optimized beamformer coefficients can be generated to result in beamformed signals associated with one or more lobes steered towards one or more desired sound locations and one or more nulls steered towards one or more undesired sound loca...