ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,601, issued on March 24, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Snoring detection system" was invented by Joel Eugene Sprunger (Portland, Ore.), Colin Doolittle Fox (Tigard, Ore.) and David Jacob Wurtz (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting snoring. The system includes a first microphone to convert a first sound into a first signal, a second microphone to convert a second sound into a second signal, and a processor. The processor generates a third signal from the first and second signals that is representative of the first sound arriving at the first microphone and the second sound ...