US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle system for detecting acoustic frequencies" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,967, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle system for detecting acoustic frequencies" was invented by Xu Fang Zhao (LaSalle, Canada), Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada), Gaurav Talwar (Novi, Mich.), Kenneth Ray Booker (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.), Scott Thomas Droste (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a user device configured to produce acoustic sounds at varying frequencies. The vehicle system also includes a vehicle microphone for collecting acoustic data from the user device. Additiona...