US Patent Issued to Zipline International on June 3 for "Acoustic based detection and avoidance for aircraft" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,292, issued on June 3, was assigned to Zipline International Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Acoustic based detection and avoidance for aircraft" was invented by Keenan A. Wyrobek (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Matthew O. Derry (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Rohit H. Sant (San Mateo, Calif.), Gavin K Ananda Krishnan (San Carlos, Calif.), Thomas O. Teisberg (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Michael J. Demertzi (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal received at audio sensors of an aircraft is analyzed to determine directional information for a source of the audio signal. A location of the source of the audio signal is determin...