ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,906, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Solos Technology Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Microphone configurations for eyewear devices, systems, apparatuses, and methods" was invented by Xi Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Dashen Fan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to extract desired audio from an apparatus to be worn on a user's head. An apparatus includes a head wearable device and an array of at least three microphones. The at least three microphones are arranged along a plurality of at least two non-parallel axes. Selection logic is configured to identify a selected axis from the plurality and two mi...