ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,330, issued on March 3, was assigned to Pioneer Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound control device, sound control system, sound control method, sound control program, and storage medium" was invented by Koji Shibata (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquiring unit of a sound control device acquires information indicating a risk corresponding to a position of a vehicle from data in which information indicating a risk during driving originated in scenery while traveling and a position are associated with each other. An output-sound control unit performs control of a sound to be output for a driver of the vehicle according to the info...