US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Acoustic event detection" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,353, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Acoustic event detection" was invented by Cesare Ferri (Belmont, Mass.), Sripal Mehta (Oakland, Calif.), Taylor Angaran Johnson (Seattle), Heran Zhang (Irvine, Calif.), Li Jiang (Irvine, Calif.), Vamsi Kodamasimham (West Chester, Pa.), Pritesh Sharma (Rockport, Mass.), Stephen Mark Lorusso (Weston, Mass.), Xiuye Chen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Chao Wang (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured to receive audio data input and determine whether the audio data corresponds to an acoustic event defined by an acoustic event profile. The...