ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,425, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Sound source positioning method and apparatus" was invented by Dongwen Ying (Shenzhen, China), Danni Kuang (Shenzhen, China) and Yanong He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound source positioning method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a sound pickup apparatus are provided, for accurately locating a sound source by using a microphone array and a radar. The method includes: obtaining first location information by using echo data of a radar (201), where the first location information includes a first angle of an obje...