ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,849, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Mobile robot with audio perception system" was invented by Pongtep Angkititrakul (Dublin, Calif.), Jonathan Francis (Pittsburgh), Luca Bondi (Pittsburgh) and Samarjit Das (Wexford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot includes a microphone array with a set of microphones. The microphone array is at least partially disposed on the mobile robot. The mobile robot receives audio signals from the microphone array. Audio feature data of acoustic activity is extracted from the audio signals. Direction of arrival (DOA) data of the acoustic activity ...