US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Dec. 16 for "Steering audio recordings in a surveillance system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,898, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Steering audio recordings in a surveillance system" was invented by Paul Fee (Belfast, Great Britain) and David Monahan (Donaghadee, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured to implement directional audio playback via digital signal processing on recorded audio. In some aspects, the system may include a processing device. Further, the processing device may be configured to select audio information for audio playback, the audio information including a plurality of audio captures of a microphone array...