US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 21 for "Vehicle and control method for generating a virtual driving sound" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,085, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and control method for generating a virtual driving sound" was invented by Dongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle and a control method are for generating a virtual driving sound. The control method for the vehicle may include: receiving a radio signal including a sound source through an antenna of the vehicle; extracting the sound source from the received radio signal; generating a virtual driving sound representing a driving state of the vehicle based on the extracted sou...