ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,991, issued on March 4, was assigned to BlackBox Biometrics Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Acoustic monitoring systems and methods" was invented by Angela D'Orazio (Rochester, N.Y.), David A. Borkholder (Rochester, N.Y.), Kim Sherman (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Scott J. Featherman (Louisburg, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to provide acoustic monitoring are disclosed, comprising receiving a first acoustic signal and providing a first analog signal output representative of the received first acoustic signal using a first sensor, determining at least one of a continuous noise level of the first analog signal output of the ...