US Patent Issued on Jan. 27 for "In-vehicle conferencing with user tracking and speaker prioritization" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,915, issued on Jan. 27.

"In-vehicle conferencing with user tracking and speaker prioritization" was invented by Ryan Edwin Hanson (Livonia, Mich.), Christopher Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Thomas Joseph Hermann (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing smart in-vehicle conferencing with user tracking and speaker prioritization. A controller system of a vehicle may determine, based at least in part on one or more cameras, a plurality of candidate best image sources, determine, from the plurality of candidate best image sources, a best image sou...