ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,865, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Noise control method and noise control device" was invented by Daisuke Ochi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiharu Nakaji (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshio Enomoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaya Gotou (Kanagawa, Japan) and Wataru Ogose (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise control device includes an engine to be mounted in a vehicle and a controller. The controller is configured to detect a state of the engine. The controller is configured to decrease a noise reduction performance due to a vibration input from a road surface in accordance with the state of t...