US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle exterior closure sound amplification and directional speaker system" (Michigan, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,142, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle exterior closure sound amplification and directional speaker system" was invented by Victor Martinez (Novi, Mich.), Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Matthew Penne (Pierce, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Directional audio is provided to positions around the vehicle. A position mapping is stored defining information indicative of how each of a plurality of closures of a vehicle, in a plurality of positions, affects sound emanating from a plurality of s...