ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,499, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY (Burlington, Mass.).

"Dynamic voice assistant system for a vehicle" was invented by Cassandra Lee (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice assistant system for a vehicle includes a microphone configured to detect an audio signal from a user of the vehicle; a speaker configured to output a dialogue in response to the audio signal; and a processor programmed to responsive to detecting a conversation in which the user is involved, decrease a lengthiness setting of the voice assistant system to reduce the length of the dialogue, and increase an independency ...