ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,630, issued on April 14, was assigned to AGM TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Elborough, Great Britain).
"Vehicle-related event detection using signal processing" was invented by Stephen William Cowper (Suffolk, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of, and a corresponding system for, detecting an event related to vehicle integrity, such as an oblique angle or side swipe type crash. The method may include using a microphone to transduce sound into an analog audio signal, and then using an analog signal processor analogically transforming said analog audio signal in the time-frequency domain, including dividing th...