US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on May 5 for "Apparatus and method for providing vehicle sound" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,411, issued on May 5, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for providing vehicle sound" was invented by Ki Chang Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Jin Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Chul Park (Anyang-si, South Korea), Eun Soo Jo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jeong Goo Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing a vehicle sound includes a communicator configured to communicates with an electronic device, a detector configured to detect driver's driving pattern information and road driving condition informa...