Computer hardware, software, and firmware for automatically disabling a user's microphone in a two-way voice-communication device when the user is not speaking and for automatically enabling the user's microphone when the user is speaking

Automatic mute feature, implemented by software, in police radar and laser detectors and annunciators for reducing and/or eliminating false alarms, muting and controlling the audible volume of the annunciator, improving the response time of the laser and/or radar detectors, enhancing frequency discrimination of the detectors, reducing power consumption, and increasing reliability and useful life of detectors and annunciators

automatic mute feature sold as an integral component of a radio/laser detector