ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,143, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Microphone system" was invented by Tomoki Tanemura (Nisshin, Japan), Takashi Takazawa (Nisshin, Japan), Yoshinori Tsuchiya (Nisshin, Japan) and Masaaki Kawauchi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone system for a vehicle cabin as an acoustic space includes a microphone array, and a processor and a memory. The processor causes a microphone disposed in an acoustic space to collect sound, classifies a sound included in a sound data related to the sound collected by t...