ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,783, issued on March 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Microphone device with adjustable aiming angle and voice recognition system and voice recognition method using the same" was invented by Danghee Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a microphone device with an adjustable aiming angle. The microphone device includes a frame, a plurality of microphones, each including a head which detects a voice of a user and a body extending in a length direction from the head toward a reference point and hingedly connected to the frame, at least on...