ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,901, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Noise reduction using synthetic audio" was invented by James Nesfield (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Ian Ward Frank (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for noise reduction using synthetic audio are disclosed. One or more playback devices include first microphone(s) (e.g., air-conduction microphone(s)) and second microphone(s) (e.g., bone-conduction microphone(s)). In operation, based on a user voice input, first and sound data streams are captured via the first and second microphone(s), respectively. The first sound data stream is e...