ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,504, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Multi-function acoustic sensor" was invented by Hyeokki Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunwook Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sungchan Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Cheheung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-function acoustic sensor may include a plate structure having a plurality of open spaces that are spaced apart from each other; a plurality of sensors provided on the plate structure, the plurality of sensors including a plurality of sensor elements respectively provided to overlap the plurality of...