US Patent Issued to JFE ADVANTECH, JFE STEEL on Sept. 9 for "Device for determining sound source direction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,199, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JFE ADVANTECH Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan) and JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device for determining sound source direction" was invented by Tomomichi Oka (Nishinomiya, Japan), Masahiro Oda (Nishinomiya, Japan), Kazuhiro Nomura (Nishinomiya, Japan) and So Nagano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining sound source direction includes an array sensor including a plurality of microphones that measures a sound wave, and a processor for calculating a sound pressure in each direction based on sound pressure information of the sound wave obtained by the array sensor and for determi...