ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,386, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Noise generation cause identifying method and noise generation cause identifying device" was invented by Shinichi Takeuchi (Nisshin, Japan), Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan), Mitsuo Okubo (Okazaki, Japan), Shingo Noritake (Owariasahi, Japan), Akira Murakami (Kasugai, Japan) and Ryo Yanagawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise generation cause identifying method and a noise generation cause identifying device are provided. A response correcting process corrects a sound signal obtained through a sound signal obtaining process based on obtaine...