ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,134, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Onset zone detection using coherent focusing summation over multiple geometric positions" was invented by Lionel Uzan (Raanana, Israel), Elior Hadad (Ness-Ziona, Israel), Amos Schreibman (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Moshe Tzur (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a multichannel input signal captured in an environment of a vehicle and, for each zone in the environment, performing speech detection by converting each frame in a sequence of frames of the multichannel input signal into a plurality of frequency...