ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,476, issued on July 15, was assigned to VUI.AI Inc (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"End-fire array microphone arrangements inside a vehicle" was invented by Dashen Fan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses exemplary arrangements of an end-fire microphone array inside a vehicle and exemplary digital signal processors configured for the end-fire in-car microphone array. The exemplary digital signal processors may be configured in two modes, a phone call mode and an automatic speech recognition mode. In each mode, the exemplary digital signal processors are improved for enhanced SNR. Different end-...