ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,761, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Infotainment system having awareness of local dynamic features" was invented by Daniel Mario Kindermann (Aachen, Germany), Mohammad Mehdi Moniri (Aachen, Germany) and Aditya Gulati (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle and many dynamic features move relative to the same reference frame. An infotainment system responds to a request from an occupant of a vehicle to provide information concerning a particular dynamic feature. The occupant provides the infotainment system with information concerning a bearing to the dynamic feature and ...