ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,901, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Transport sound profile" was invented by Stephen Paul McFarland Jr. (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of associating a vehicle with an impact, saving media captured before and after the impact as a media segment, transmitting, by a computing device associated with the vehicle, the media segment to another computing device, and building a sound profile from the media segment."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/224,051.

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