US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on May 27 for "Systems and methods for generating anonymized acoustic fingerprints" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,530, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for generating anonymized acoustic fingerprints" was invented by Len Usvyat (Boston), Thomas Charles Blanchard (Somerville, Mass.), Sheetal Chaudhuri (Arlington, Mass.), Wendy Millette (Concord, Mass.), Franklin W. Maddux (Lincoln, Mass.) and Caitlin Kelly Monaghan (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating anonymized acoustic fingerprints. For a predetermined time interval, raw audio data associated with an environment can be captured and processed. Based on the captured raw audi...