US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Jan. 13 for "Noise cancelation for loud ambient transient sounds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,218, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noise cancelation for loud ambient transient sounds" was invented by Brant Candelore (Poway, Calif.) and Mahyar Nejat (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations generally relate to noise cancelation for loud ambient transient sound. In some implementations, a method includes capturing, by a one or more microphones coupled to one or more earbuds, ambient sounds from an environment of the user while the user is wearing the one or more earbuds. The method further includes enabling, by the one or more earbuds, the user to hear the ambient sounds and ...