ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,603, issued on June 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for controlling microphone input signal in vehicle" was invented by Hae Sung Kang (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method of controlling a microphone input signal in a vehicle includes receiving a sound signal from an external server or an external device, generating a first reference signal based on the sound signal and generating a second reference signal based on a signal obtained by removing noise from the sound signal and performing equalization, receiving the m...