US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on March 17 for "Methodology for locating sound sources behind a solid structure" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,421, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Methodology for locating sound sources behind a solid structure" was invented by Sean F. Wu (Troy, Mich.), Antonio Figueroa Mombela (Farmington, Mich.) and Yazhong Lu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for locating a sound source includes at least four emitter/receiver pairs, each emitter/receiver pair of the at least four emitter/receiver pairs including a laser emitter and a receiver external to an enclosed structure. The laser directs a laser beam onto a respective reflector surface location on an outer surface of the structure, the resp...