US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on June 2 for "Sound detection device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,724, issued on June 2, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Sound detection device" was invented by Paul Louis Maria Joseph Van Neer (Bergschenhoek, Netherlands), Peter Johan Harmsma (Vleuten, Netherlands), Daniele Piras (Amsterdam), Robert Karl Altmann (Abcoude, Netherlands) and Maurits Sebastiaan Van Der Heiden ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sound detection device comprises a substrate, an array of sound detectors in or on a surface of the substrate, a processing circuit coupled to the sound detectors, the processing...