ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,449, issued on July 1, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spatio-temporal beamformer" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.) and Alireza Masnadi-Shirazi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for signal processing. The present implementations relate more specifically to a spatio-temporal beamformer. In some aspects, a beamforming system may receive an audio signal via a plurality of microphones, the audio signal including a number (B) of frames for each of the plurality of microphones, each of the B frames for each of the plurality of ...