ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,078, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling noise road noise via trained model and method thereof" was invented by Seok Hee Jeong (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling noise and a method thereof includes a memory that stores computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor that accesses the memory to execute the instructions, wherein the at least one processor may obtain a virtual road noise and a noise weight by applying an error input signal of a target time point to a trained...