ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,208, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BLACK BOX MEDICAL (Holon, Israel).

"Communications technology selection management and mapping algorithm" was invented by Danny Sivan (Yavne, Israel) and Ezra Orkoby (Azor, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for mapping an environment with acoustic signals, the method including: listening to the environment with an acoustic sensor; randomly selecting a frequency; generating an acoustic signal at the frequency; transmitting the generated acoustic signal; receiving, at the acoustic sensor, a feedback signal formed from the acoustic signal rebounding off an object in the e...