US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on July 1 for "Digital assistant human-machine interaction device" (Singaporean, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,511, issued on July 1, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Digital assistant human-machine interaction device" was invented by Saptak Sanyal (Singapore), Ling Chih (Daniel) Teng (Singapore), Thomas Gress (Steinbach, Germany), Maharaja Sankaralingam (Singapore), Pixie Ru Jun Tham (Singapore), Chee Wei Lee (Singapore), Boon Ching Ng (Singapore) and Jason Choon Leng Tan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital assistant device comprises an input component configured to acquire information from a plurality of users in a predetermined area around the digital assistant device and to outp...