ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,748, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"System and method for integrated emergency vehicle detection and localization" was invented by Friedrich Faubel (Ulm, Germany), Philipp Bulling (Ulm, Germany) and Nico Untereiner (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A siren detector identifies those frequencies at which a siren is active and a localizer localizes the siren based on those frequencies."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2021, under Application No. 17/908,557.

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