Patent ID: 7817798

Claim:
A beamforming microphone assembly comprising: a microphone array carrier having a top surface and having a first plurality of adjacent side faces arrayed about an exterior surface of the microphone array carrier, the top surface and each of the side faces being substantially planar and each of the side faces extending substantially perpendicular to the top surface; a corresponding first plurality of microphones, each microphone being mounted in a microphone boot, each microphone boot being adapted to be mounted in a side opening extending through a corresponding one of the side faces of the microphone array carrier; a housing for receiving the microphone array carrier and the microphones; sound isolating material disposed to acoustically isolate the microphone boots from the housing and to acoustically isolate the microphones from the microphone array carrier; and a cover for confining the microphone array carrier and the microphones within the housing, the cover allowing sound to reach the microphones from outside the housing and the cover.