US Patent Issued to FERRARI on July 1 for "Road vehicle provided with an aerodynamic sound generation system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,164, issued on July 1, was assigned to FERRARI S.p.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Road vehicle provided with an aerodynamic sound generation system" was invented by Alfonso Oliva (Modena, Italy), Luca Poggio (Modena, Italy), Federico Acuto (Modena, Italy) and Matteo De Petris (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road vehicle having: a bottom wall, which, in use, faces a road surface; a body, which delimits a passenger compartment; and an aerodynamic sound generation system, which is configured to generate sounds making use of the head wind, namely the movement of air relative to the road vehicle generated by the forward movement of t...