ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,584, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Scalable conferencing systems and methods" was invented by Joseph Marash (Irvine, Calif.), Jacob Marash (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Baruch Berdugo (St. Kiriat Ata, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable conferencing system can include a set of conferencing devices configured to be placed on a surface (such as, a table), mounted on a ceiling, or attached to a wall. The conferencing devices can be configured to be positioned in a room and pick up and/or reproduce audio in the room. Depending on the configuration and/or characteristics of ...