ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,322, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Degradation level prediction method and degradation level prediction system" was invented by Kyung Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Hyun Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Dae Un Sung (Incheon, South Korea), Hyunseok Oh (Gwangju, South Korea), Donghwi Yoo (Gwangju, South Korea) and Jeongmin Oh (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degradation level of a noise source is predicted by performing deep learning using frequency data indicating a vib...