ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,943, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"System and method for anomaly detection in unlabeled collections of audio recording" was invented by Alessandro Ilic Mezza (Milan), Luca Bondi (Pittsburgh), Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan (Livermore, Calif.) and Pongtep Angkititrakul (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the device may include receiving a first and second audio dataset. In addition, the device may generate a first, a second, a third, and a fourth audio sample. Moreover, the device may include determining a level of similarity between the first and second audio samples. Als...