US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus for generating driving sound in vehicle and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,116, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for generating driving sound in vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Ki Chang Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jin Sung Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dong Chul Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Eun Soo Jo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Jin Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a driving sound in a vehicle includes a first conversion device that receives first sound information and converts the received first sound information into second sound i...