US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Oct. 21 for "Hazard detecting methods and apparatuses" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,583, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Hazard detecting methods and apparatuses" was invented by Sumit Kulkarni (Charlotte, N.C.) and Janmejaya Tripathy (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection apparatus is provided. The detection apparatus may include a microphone configured to detect a combination of a first and second soundwave, wherein the first soundwave comprises background noise, a memory configured to store a first pre-determined sound signature corresponding to the background noise and a second pre-determined sound signature corresponding to a hazard soundw...