US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Nov. 4 for "Spatially explicit auditory cues for enhanced situational awareness" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,309, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Spatially explicit auditory cues for enhanced situational awareness" was invented by Gregory Welch (Orlando, Fla.), Gerd Bruder (Orlando, Fla.) and Zubin Choudhary (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a system for generating spatially explicit auditory cues for a recipient. It includes a processor to receive real-time location data of multiple physical entities relative to the recipient's spatial position and visual orientation. An audio generation module transforms this data into distinct aud...