US Patent Issued to Cerence Operating on March 25 for "Contextual recommendation of promotions and advertising" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,430, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Contextual recommendation of promotions and advertising" was invented by Kuldeep Singh (Aachen, Germany), Reimund Schmald (Aachen, Germany) and Johan Wouters (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving information indicative of a location of a vehicle. The vehicle has an occupied-vehicle state that includes an occupant state. This occupant state represents the state of one or more occupants within the vehicle. The method further includes receiving information indicative of this occupant state. The information ind...