ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,424, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Sound data processing device and sound data processing method" was invented by Shota Ohkubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Jo Nishiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Takehito Teraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Shikoda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Fangge Chen (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound data processing device includes: a sound data acquisition unit configured to acquire first sound data that is data about a sound whose sound image is localized in a cabin of a vehi...