US Patent Issued to SK Planet on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus and method for analyzing road surface condition based on vehicle noise" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,796, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SK Planet Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for analyzing road surface condition based on vehicle noise" was invented by JongHee Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yeonghyeon Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and JoonSung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deriving a dangerous area of a road based on a vehicle's noise generated on the road or analyzing a road surface condition based on a driving noise for each vehicle type. An audio signal is collected by a sensor device and send to a noise processing unit. The noise processing unit generates an attenuated ...