US Patent Issued to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on March 25 for "System and method for managing a ventilation outlet" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,881, issued on March 25, was assigned to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Nongbo, China).

"System and method for managing a ventilation outlet" was invented by Mans Pihlsgard (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Erik Lindberg Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer program product for managing the flow of air from a ventilation outlet. The method includes determining a position of a sound detected by at least a first microphone determining a ventilation outlet control data based on the position of the sound controlling the air flow of the at least first ventilation outlet ...