ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,717, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Companion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method for detecting and reducing animal vocalizations" was invented by Paul Mundell (San Francisco), John Honchariw (San Francisco) and Libby Rockaway (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: accessing an audio feed captured by an audio sensor integrated within a training apparatus deployed in an environment and configured to dispense units of a treat into a working field in the environment; detecting a bark event at a first time based on audible signals extracted from the audio feed; in response to detecti...