ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,940, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Vehicle cabin simulation for audio tuning and testing" was invented by Lukasz Pollak (Cracow, Poland) and Marta Twardowska (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of simulating a vehicle cabin for audio tuning and/or testing. The method includes obtaining and storing a 3D impulse response corresponding to each speaker within the cabin of a vehicle to be simulated. The method includes at a location remote from the vehicle, in real-time, applying convolution processing on each channel of a multichannel audio stream based on the cor...