US Patent Issued to Columbia Insurance on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for sound file creation" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,511, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Columbia Insurance Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Methods and systems for sound file creation" was invented by Joseph M. Woodall (Ringgold, Ga.), Julie B. Brumbelow (Dalton, Ga.), Barrett R. Morton (Cartersville, Ga.), David Wayland Dong (Los Angeles) and John Loverde (Cypress, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and systems for performing a series of acoustic tests in a variety of testing environments comprising several types of construction assemblies. Prior to performing each acoustic test, a plurality of audio parameters corresponding to a given construction assembly can be us...