US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Abnormal sound diagnosis system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,889, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Abnormal sound diagnosis system" was invented by Yoshitaka Shindo (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage unit for storing a database of body sensitivity data determined for each position of a sound source, a sound acquisition unit for acquiring sound data in the vehicle cabin as sound data in the vehicle cabin and monitor data as sound data outside the vehicle cabin, a body sensitivity acquisition unit for acquiring body sensitivity data corresponding to the acquired position at which the monitor data is acquired, a sound source estimation ...