US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Aug. 4 for "Apparatus and method for narrowband direction- of-arrival estimation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,355, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for narrowband direction- of-arrival estimation" was invented by Soumitro Chakrabarty (Erlangen, Germany), Shashi Kumar Kempapura Srinivasa (Erlangen, Germany), Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Kroos (Erlangen, Germany) and Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating sub-band-specific direction information for two or more sub-bands of a plurality of sub-bands according to an embodiment is provided. The apparatus has a feature extractor f...