US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 7 for "Multi-branched network for event detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,416, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-branched network for event detection" was invented by Mashhour Solh (San Jose, Calif.), Ameya Patil (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Steven Sensarn (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that performs event detection using a multi-branched network for sensor fusion. For example, a device may detect when a tap event occurs on a surface of the device using a combination of microphone audio data and sensor data, such as motion data generated by a motion sensor. Prior to combining these inputs for further inference, the device may use separate ne...