US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for acoustic behavior feedback" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,938, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for acoustic behavior feedback" was invented by Christine Jean Wu (San Francisco), Shokofeh Darbari (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shane Anton Myrbeck (Los Angeles), Caitlin Emily Riggs (San Francisco), Jack Godfrey Wood (San Francisco), Andy Furner (London) and Harc Lee (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for acoustic behavior feedback includes a light emitter and a microphone. Ambient sound data from the microphone may be compared to a threshold sound level, and one of a plurality of settings for the light emitter may be selected base...