ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,806, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intelligent Entry Machines LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for contact microphones" was invented by Andrew Parsadayan (Newport Coast, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barrier operator system such as a residential or industrial access gate system comprises a plurality of components that are mechanically coupled to each other to so form an acoustic chain. Once or more contact microphones are coupled to one or more of the components and used to ascertain operation and functional status of the gate system, and to identify potential or actual modes of failure via determination of a...