ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,746, issued on April 15, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Sound source identification method and system based on array measurement and sparse prior information" was invented by Tianyang Wang (Beijing), Shilin Sun (Beijing) and Fulei Chu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides sound source identification based on array measurement and sparse prior information, which uses a generalized minimax concave penalty function to apply a sparse constraint on a sound source reconstruction error, determines position information of a potential sound source according to a basic sound image generated by ...