ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,471, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA CONECTED NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Dynamic audio control" was invented by Simon P. Roberts (Celina, Texas), Sergei I. Gage (Dallas), Yang Ding (Montreal), Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano, Texas), Michael R. Kushnerik (The Colony, Texas), Naohiro J. Matsumura (Dallas), Cory M. Frank (Frisco, Texas), Jessica May (Danbury, Texas) and Matthew J. Everett (Norton Shores, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a call on a device associated wi...