ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,341, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"Location of an acoustic source" was invented by Jerome Daniel (Chatillon, France) and Srdan Kitic (Chatillon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing audio signals acquired by at least one microphone to locate a sound source in a space having a wall. The method includes applying a time-frequency transform to the acquired signals and expressing a general complex velocity vector with a real part and an imaginary part in the frequency domain. The vector has a denominator with a component other than an omnidirectional component and charact...