ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,561, issued on Sept. 15.
"Noise canceling solid state electronic stethoscope with adapted acoustic impedance" was invented by Rodolfo Jose Miccino (Provo, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state electronic stethoscope with ambient noise cancellation and active noise cancellation technique. In a first embodiment, the improved signal-to-noise ratio is obtained by applying an acoustic impedance matching technique. In a second embodiment, the stethoscope further comprises an arrangement of additional sensors for active noise cancellation based on a differential acoustic signal technique."
The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2024...