ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,129, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cerence (Burlington, Mass.).
"Voice assistant error detection system" was invented by Markus Funk (Merelbeke, Belgium) and Holger Quast (Ghent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system for classifying spoken utterance within a vehicle cabin as one of system-directed and non-system directed, the system may include at least one microphone configured to detect at least one acoustic utterance from at least one occupant of a vehicle, at least one sensor to detect user behavior data indicative of user behavior, and a processor programmed to: receive the acoustic utterance, classify t...