ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,729, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Pseudo-sound generation device" was invented by Takahiro Oishi (Osaka, Japan), Masahide Onishi (Osaka, Japan), Fumiyasu Konno (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Ukawa (Hyogo, Japan), Seiichi Yoshida (Osaka, Japan) and Taiki Kodatsu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pseudo-sound generation device includes: a sound reproducer that obtains and outputs first pseudo-sound information indicating first pseudo sounds corresponding to vehicle state information; a first controller that generates, based on the vehicle state information, first adjust...