ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,347, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Unmanned aircraft" was invented by Stephen William John (Nara, Japan), Kazunobu Konishi (Osaka, Japan), Katsuhiko Asai (Nara, Japan) and Shunsuke Kuhara (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aircraft includes: a microphone including a plurality of elements; and a processor that processes signals output from target elements included in the plurality of elements. In the unmanned aircraft, the processor performs a detection process of detecting a target sound signal of a target sound from the signals output from ...