ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,815, issued on April 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Systems and methods for false positive mitigation in impulsive sound detectors" was invented by Luca Bondi (Pittsburgh), Samarjit Das (Wexford, Pa.) and Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method data augmentation includes receiving audio stream data associated with at least one impulse event, receiving a label associated with the audio stream data, and detecting, using an onset detector, at least one peak of the at least one impulse event. The method also includes extracting at least one positive sample of the audio stream da...