ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,985, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Multi-modal cognitive mechanism for road section recognition" was invented by Si Tong Zhao (Xian, China), Jing Wen Xu (Shanghai), Zhong Fang Yuan (Xi'an, China), Ya Dong Li (Beijing), Hai Bo Zou (Beijing) and Xuan Yin Xia (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for road section recognition using multi-modal cognitive mechanism, a processor receives an audio signal from a road test. A processor processes the audio signal to generate an acoustic spectrum density distribution map to identify a respective at least one road section ...