Patents by Inventor Christopher Charles Nighman

Christopher Charles Nighman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Acoustic microphone arrays
    Patent number: 12010483
    Abstract: Acoustic microphone array systems including arrays of microphones placed on a printed circuit board or other substrate in asymmetric patterns. A plurality of additional non-microphone components also reside on the board. The asymmetric placement of the microphones in the array provides flexibility in physically accommodating the additional non-microphone components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: QSC, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Nighman, Gerrit Eimbertus Rosenboom, Mauricio Greene, Alfredo Martin Aguilar
  • MULTI-SOURCE AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20230115674
    Abstract: A conferencing system includes a plurality of microphones and an audio processing system that performs blind source separation operations on audio signals to identify different audio sources. The system processes the separated audio sources to identify or classify the sources and generates an output stream including the source separated content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Nighman, Gerrit Eimbertus Rosenboom, Alfredo Martin Aguilar, Matthew George Skogmo
  • ACOUSTIC MICROPHONE ARRAYS
    Publication number: 20230047408
    Abstract: Acoustic microphone array systems including arrays of microphones placed on a printed circuit board or other substrate in asymmetric patterns. A plurality of additional non-microphone components also reside on the board. The asymmetric placement of the microphones in the array provides flexibility in physically accommodating the additional non-microphone components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Nighman, Gerrit Eimbertus Rosenboom, Mauricio Greene, Alfredo Martin Aguilar