ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,625, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle proximity notification device, vehicle proximity notification method, and mobile device" was invented by Fumiyasu Konno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle proximity device includes: an obtainer that obtains a first audio signal obtained by extracting a first frequency band of a first sound source signal and a second audio signal obtained by extracting a second frequency band thereof; a simulated signal processor that generates a simulated signal based on a second sound source signal; a third filter that generate...