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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2023
Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc., Niles, IL (US);
Mathew T. Abraham, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
David Grant Cason, Palatine, IL (US);
John Casey Gibbs, Chicago, IL (US);
Gregory William Lantz, Geneva, IL (US);
Albert Francis McGovern, Jr., Naperville, IL (US);
Brent Robert Shumard, Mount Prospect, IL (US);
Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc., Niles, IL (US);
Abstract
Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.