ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,411, issued on June 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Systems and methods for cross-modal signal inference using audio signals" was invented by Long Huang (Baton Rouge, La.), Pongtep Angkititrakul (Dublin, Calif.) and Samarjit Das (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for converting a primary one-dimensional signal into a secondary one-dimensional signal of another modality. The primary signal is spliced into a plurality of consecutive frames. A first linear transformation transforms the frames into corresponding vectors. Positional encodings are provided on the vectors to encode relative posi...