US Patent Issued to Apple on May 19 for "Acoustic event sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,296, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Acoustic event sensor" was invented by Robert D. Silvfast (Belmont, Calif.), Nicholas C. Soldner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Siddharth S. Hazra (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit package having integrated therein an array of acoustic to electrical transducers that produce analog audio sub-band signals, an analog detector circuit to produce for each sub-band a number of analog property signals, an analog to digital conversion circuit to digitize each of the analog property signals, and an encoder to produce for each sub-band a fea...