ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,376, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle equipped with sound control device" was invented by Jongkun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Joonil Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Gunho Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Kichul Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a vehicle comprising a sound control device. A sound control device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a sound object extraction module that extracts at least one audio object from an audio signal received from at least one of an outdoor microphone provided outside a vehic...