US Patent Issued to Cerence Operating on Oct. 7 for "Proactive multi-modal automotive concierge" (American, Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,014, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Proactive multi-modal automotive concierge" was invented by Evans Castonguay (Montreal), Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru (Austin, Texas), Christian Benien (Aachen, Germany), William Bille (Montreal), Iqbal Arshad (South Barrington, Ill.) and Ricky Hoobler (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing information services to a user in a vehicle includes an automotive concierge, a prompter, and an interaction mode. The automotive concierge is hosted by an infotainment system in the vehicle and engages in an interaction w...