G10L 2021/02166
Microphone arrays
Official title: {Microphone arrays; Beamforming}
G10L2021/02166 (Microphone arrays) appears on 1,550 US grants and 1,721 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10L- Granted patents
- 1,550
- Published applications
- 1,721
- Assignees
- 489
- Inventors
- 2,541
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 64 | 46 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for a cooperative conversational voice user interface656US 8,073,681 B2VoiceBox Technologies, Inc. · 2011
- System and method for improved speech acquisition for hands-free voice telecommunication in a noisy environment410US 5,353,376 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1994
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