ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,187, issued on April 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Emergency response vehicle detection for autonomous driving applications" was invented by Ambrish Dantrey (Pune, India), Atousa Torabi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anshul Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Ram Ganapathi (San Jose, Calif.), Abhijit Patait (Pune, India), Revanth Reddy Nalla (Maharashtra, India) and Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, audio alerts of emergency response vehicles may be detected and classified using audio captured by microphones of an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine in order to identify ...