US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 18 for "Sound-source search system and sound-source search method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,078, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Sound-source search system and sound-source search method" was invented by Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan), Masafumi Yamamoto (Nagakute, Japan), Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan) and Yuuki Makino (Aichi-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound-source search system for searching a sound source that causes a noise propagated inside or outside a cabin of a vehicle. The system includes: a sound-source search device for acquiring sound data by collecting and measuring a sound; an informing device for informing a sound measuring position in which the sound-so...