US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Vehicle sound ordinance control and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,481, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle sound ordinance control and method" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Muhannad Anwar Hamdan (Canton, Mich.), Christian Wegner (Clawson, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle with sound monitoring, having a cabin interior configured to transport one or more occupants, an interior microphone located in the cabin interior for detecting interior sound, a navigation device for detecting a geographic location of the vehicle, and a controller to determine sound ordinance...