US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Acoustic vehicle alerting system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,351, issued on April 15, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Acoustic vehicle alerting system" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jeffrey R. Seaman (Petersburg, Mich.), Ralph R. Jones (Tecumseh, Canada), Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Joseph W. Herman (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedestrian alerting system adapts alerting sounds emitted by a vehicle according to an acoustic environment around the vehicle. Echoes of the alerting sound in an enclosed space such as a garage can be irritating to the pedestrians and/or occupants of the vehicle. A sensor sui...