US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Auto focus, auto focus within regions, and auto placement of beamformed microphone lobes with inhibition and voice activity detection functionality" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,766, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Auto focus, auto focus within regions, and auto placement of beamformed microphone lobes with inhibition and voice activity detection functionality" was invented by Dusan Veselinovic (Chicago), Mathew T. Abraham (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Michael Ryan Lester (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Michelle Michiko Ansai (Chicago), Justin Joseph Sconza (Chicago) and Avinash K. Vaidya (Riverwoods, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Array microphone systems and methods that can automatically focus and/or place beamformed lobes in response to detected sound act...