US Patent Issued to DISTRAN on May 20 for "Acoustic detection device and system with regions of interest" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,069, issued on May 20, was assigned to DISTRAN AG (Zurich).

"Acoustic detection device and system with regions of interest" was invented by Florian Perrodin (Zurich) and Joel Busset (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: an acoustic detection device comprising a plurality of microphones; an output or communication means for sending a signal or a message; a memory for storing a location of at least one region of interest and an associated threshold value; a processing circuit for detecting a location and a sound pressure level of a potential sound source; and for testing if the detected sound source is situated in a...