US Patent Issued to Elliptic Laboratories ASA on July 8 for "Acoustic proximity detection for computers with reduced power consumption" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,853, issued on July 8, was assigned to Elliptic Laboratories ASA (Oslo, Norway).

"Acoustic proximity detection for computers with reduced power consumption" was invented by Espen Klovning (Strommen, Norway) and Tom Oystein Kavli (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a proximity detection system and method for a computer or similar device. The computer includes at least two transducer units being capable of transmitting acoustic signals identifying the transducer within a predetermined frequency range. The transducer units are positioned at a distance from each other in said device, and at least ...