US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Sept. 8 for "Dynamic acoustic signature system with sensor fusion for illegal logging in rainforest" (Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,837, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic acoustic signature system with sensor fusion for illegal logging in rainforest" was invented by Jiayi Wu (Winchester, Mass.), Mauro A. Damo (Windermere, Fla.), Fnu Ain-Ul-Aisha (Framingham, Mass.), Wei Lin (Plainsboro, N.J.) and William Schmarzo (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations described herein can be directed to detecting a human disturbance from sensor data streamed from one or more sensors in a network of sensors; processing the detected human disturbance to determine a probability of a chainsaw even...