US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Oct. 20 for "Indirect emissions monitoring system and method" (Texas, Florida, Indiana, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,492, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Indirect emissions monitoring system and method" was invented by Jennifer Dawn Ayala (Mico, Texas), Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, Texas), Jennifer Marie Chandler-Bradley (Wesley Chapel, Fla.), Emily Nicole Van Santen (Denver) and Keegan Patrick Hayes (Whitestown, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or method for receiving audio data from an area via one or more audio sensors and correlating the received audio data to known audio data, wherein correlation of the received audio data to certain known audio data indicates a likely...