ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,599, issued on July 29, was assigned to Databuoy Corp. (Vienna, Va.).
"Device for acoustic source localization" was invented by Kathleen Ann Griggs (Vienna, Va.) and Stephen Patrick Griggs (Vienna, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic signals from an acoustic event are captured via sensing nodes of sensor group(s) that comprise a group of sensing nodes at a location comprising spatial boundaries. Each of the sensing nodes comprise a sensor area. Each of the sensor group(s) is based on: range limits of each of the sensing nodes; shared sensing areas of the sensing nodes; and intersections between the sensor area for each of the...