US Patent Issued to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE on March 18 for "Directional array intercom for internal communication on aircraft" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,252, issued on March 18, was assigned to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE Corp. (Savannah, Ga.).

"Directional array intercom for internal communication on aircraft" was invented by Stefan Eling (Savannah, Ga.), Justin Maas (Savannah, Ga.), Bethany Davis (Savannah, Ga.), Scott Bohanan (Savannah, Ga.), Jim Jordan (Savannah, Ga.) and Tongan Wang (Savannah, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aircraft intercom employs beam steerable microphone arrays and speaker arrays deployed in each of a plurality of zones within the aircraft. A speech recognizer generates recognition text from utterances picked up by the microphone arrays. A direction contro...