ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,174, issued on March 25, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Array microphone system and method of assembling the same" was invented by Mathew T. Abraham (Colorado Springs, Colo.), David Grant Cason (Palatine, Ill.), John Casey Gibbs (Chicago), Gregory William Lantz (Geneva, Ill.), Albert Francis McGovern Jr. (Naperville, Ill.) and Brent Robert Shumard (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at leas...