ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,019, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY (Burlington, Mass.).
"Proactive automotive assistant" was invented by Kuldeep Singh (Aachen, Germany), Dhruv Gupta (Aachen, Germany), Eric Lesage (Aachen, Germany), Oliver Bender (Aachen, Germany), Nils Lenke (Aachen, Germany) and Vanessa Tobisch (Ried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising an infotainment system including a proactive automotive assistant that executes a first action and a second action, wherein the first action is that of permitting spontaneous communication to an occupant in a vehicle and the second action is that of provid...