ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,789, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Language detection system for a vehicle" was invented by Prabhjot Kaur (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Noah Sharkus (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Nicholas Constantine Sidiropoulos (Fraser, Mich.) and Gaurav Talwar (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A language detection system includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include issuing a...