ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,299, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Noise level prediction system for vehicle" was invented by Kai Aizawa (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Nagano (Toyota, Japan) and Mitsutaka Sakoh (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise level prediction system for a vehicle configured to predict a noise to be perceived by an occupant of the vehicle includes: a parameter determiner configured to determine at least three parameters as parameters relating to a noise reduction effect when the noise is transmitted to the occupant, the parameter determiner being configured to determine, as the at least th...