ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,045, issued on May 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Acoustic event detection" was invented by Qingming Tang (Cambridge, Mass.), Chieh-Chi Kao (Somerville, Mass.), Qin Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Ming Sun (Winchester, Mass.), Chao Wang (Newton, Mass.), Sumit Garg (Acton, Mass.), Rong Chen (Boston), James Garnet Droppo (Carnation, Wash.) and Chia-Jung Chang (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a first acoustic event detection (AED) component configured to detect a predetermined set of acoustic events, and include a second AED component configured to detect custom acoustic events th...