US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on April 8 for "Vehicle approach notification system and vehicle approach notification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,495, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle approach notification system and vehicle approach notification method" was invented by Mitsuhiro Tani (Osaka, Japan), Shinnosuke Nagasawa (Osaka, Japan) and Fumiyasu Konno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle approach notification system includes a filter; a notification sound controller which generates a signal corresponding to a notification sound for notifying of approaching of a vehicle, based on a sound signal obtained from a notification-sound sound source; and a setter which obtains vehicle information of...