ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,869, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for reducing background noise" was invented by Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), Gary D. Cudak (Wake Forest, N.C.) and John M. Petersen (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, communication devices, and systems are disclosed for automatically controlling sound producing components of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an incoming communication and sending a first instruction to one or more vehicle components. The first instruction is configured to cause the one or more vehicle co...