US Patent Issued to BLUEIQ on Sept. 15 for "Automated passive acoustic monitoring with machine learning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,693, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BLUEIQ LLC (Harvard, Mass.).

"Automated passive acoustic monitoring with machine learning" was invented by Kimberly E Gavin (Harvard, Mass.) and Robert Joseph McGurrin (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for automated passive acoustic monitoring with machine learning. An acoustic sensor is accessed. The acoustic sensor includes an embedded acoustic controller which hosts a machine learning model. The acoustic sensor is coupled to one or more hydrophones. The acoustic sensor is deployed in a body of water and is submerged. The acoustic sens...