US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on July 8 for "Determining a location of a squeak or rattle associated with a vehicle" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,418, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Determining a location of a squeak or rattle associated with a vehicle" was invented by Mark Bailey (Seattle), Erik St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Kevin Kochever (San Bruno, Calif.) and Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may detect a sound associated with a vehicle. The sound may be detected using a set of one or more microphones. The system may use a machine learning model to detect at least one of a squeak or a rattle based on the sound. The machine learning model may be trained using a plurality of sounds emitted...