ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,887, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cummins Power Generation Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Generator set visualization and noise source localization using acoustic data" was invented by Shashikant Ramdas More (Coon Rapids, Minn.), William S. Bederaux-Cayne (Columbus, Ind.), William C. Tuttle (Columbus, Ind.) and Harshalkumar Chimanbhai Patel (Seymour, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of product visualization and acoustic noise source localization includes receiving acoustic data that is associated with a first product, mapping a sound field around the first product based on the acoustic data, and generating a 3D surface of the...