ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,492, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Device, method and system for detecting objects of interest using soundscaped signatures" was invented by Chew How Lim (Sungai Petani, Malaysia), Chun Seng Song (Georgetown, Malaysia), Mohd Hizami Abdul Hamid (Seberang Jaya, Malaysia) and Cheah Min Wong (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, method and system for detecting objects of interest using soundscaped signatures is provided. A device identifies, using first video or first audio from a first camera, an object of interest (OOI) and a sound type of a sound made by the OOI, and...