US Patent Issued to Cerence Operating on Oct. 7 for "Multimodal sensor fusion for building virtual gamepad for in-car games" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,134, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Multimodal sensor fusion for building virtual gamepad for in-car games" was invented by Mohammad Medhi Moniri (Ulm, Germany) and Erland Unruh (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle gaming system for a vehicle includes one or more computing devices configured to obtain body gesture data indicative of one or more recognized poses of a user of a video game; obtain speech data indicative of one or more recognized words spoken by the user in a passenger cabin of the vehicle; generate a multimodal gaming input by combining the body gesture dat...