ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,973, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Classification system and method for classifying an external impact on a window or on an access opening of an enclosed structure" was invented by Cecilia Carbonelli (Munich) and Andrea Heinz (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a system includes: an audio signal pre-processor; a pressure signal pre-processor; an audio signal feature processor; a pressure signal feature processor; a feature combining processor; and a classification processor configured for classifying the external impact on a window or access ope...