US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 31 for "Active noise control method and system for vehicles" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,216, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Active noise control method and system for vehicles" was invented by Jea Kwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Bo Yong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active noise control method and system for a vehicle are provided. The active noise control method for a vehicle includes performing active noise control (ANC) to reduce noise introduced from the outside of the vehicle to the inside of the vehicle and received through a microphone, determining whether a level of residual noise of the noise redu...