US Patent Issued to SRI INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 23 for "Acoustic sound event detection system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,852, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Acoustic sound event detection system" was invented by Martin Graciarena (Belmont, Calif.), Aaron Dennis Lawson (Sutter Creek, Calif.) and Md Hafizur Rahman (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosure describes a computing system to automatically identify and classify audio input, including non-speech audio signals. The computing system may also add new classes based on only a limited number of examples of the new classes, to identify classes of sounds for which the system had not been trained."

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