ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,303, issued on July 1, was assigned to ALGORIZED SARL (Etoy, Switzerland).

"Devices and systems for break-in prevention" was invented by Natalia Lopareva (Forel, Switzerland), Marc Kuhn (Gockhausen, Switzerland) and Samuel Schuller (Aadorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device which includes a microphone configured to detect a noise from a surrounding area of the device; an electronic circuit coupled to the microphone, wherein the electronic circuit comprises (i) at least one low-pass filter configured to filter the detected noise and (ii) a frequency-to-voltage converter configured to convert a frequency of the filtere...