US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Auditory-based environment monitoring" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,711, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Auditory-based environment monitoring" was invented by Viswas Purohit (East Amherst, N.Y.), Mohsen Nasseri (East Meadow, N.Y.) and Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for environment monitoring. Exemplary embodiments may include emitting one or more soundwaves within an environment, detecting the emitted one or more soundwaves, and identifying motion of an object within the environment based on an analysis of the detected one or more soundwaves."

The p...