US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Sound control device, storage medium storing computer program for sound control, and sound control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,918, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Sound control device, storage medium storing computer program for sound control, and sound control method" was invented by Wataru Kawashima (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound control device has a processor configured to determine whether a driving mode of a vehicle is a first driving mode wherein degree to which the driver participates in driving is low or a second driving mode wherein the degree to which the driver participates in driving is higher, and decide to cause attenuation of predetermined sounds inside the vehicle in a first ...