US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Authentication system for a voice controlled autonomous driving system" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,277, issued on July 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Authentication system for a voice controlled autonomous driving system" was invented by Alireza Esna Ashari Esfahani (San Bruno, Calif.), Rouhollah Sayed Jafari (Troy, Mich.) and Upali P. Mudalige (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system for a voice controlled autonomous driving system of a vehicle includes a plurality of perception sensors for collecting perception data indicative of an environment surrounding the vehicle and one or more controllers in electronic communication with one or more autonomous drivi...