ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,395, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Acoustic detection of disguised vehicles" was invented by Matthew T. Gerdes (Oakland, Calif.), Guang C. Wang (San Diego), Timothy D. Cline (Gainesville, Va.) and Kenny C. Gross (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with acoustic detection of disguised vehicles are described. In one embodiment of a method for acoustic detection of disguised vehicles, a first acoustic output of a target vehicle that appears to be of a first type is recorded. A second acoustic output of a referenc...