ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,699, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for diagnosing failure of microphone of vehicle" was invented by Jae Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for diagnosing a microphone of a vehicle reduce an interior noise by applying an active road surface noise reduction method, learn sounds collected using a plurality of microphones to generate a simulated signal for a specific microphone, and detect a failure of the specific microphone by comparing the simulated signal with an actually measured sound of the specific microph...