US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 8 for "Controlling electronic devices by aerial vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,783, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Controlling electronic devices by aerial vehicles" was invented by Peter Exner (Malmo, Sweden) and Hannes Bergkvist (Rydeback, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprises a sensor arrangement, a control system operable to obtain sensor data from the sensor arrangement, and a microphone configured to provide an audio signal representing sound waves received by the microphone. The control system processes (102) the audio signal for detection of an audio characteristic feature, ACF, representing an operating parameter of a propulsion system in an...