US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on Dec. 30 for "Two-way in-vehicle virtual personal assistant" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,099, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Two-way in-vehicle virtual personal assistant" was invented by Gregory Bohl (Muenster, Texas), Mengling Hettinger (Murphy, Texas), Prithvi Kambhampati (Plano, Texas), Behrouz Saghafi Khadem (Dallas) and Nikhil Patel (Prosper, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a computer-implemented method for interacting with a user. The method comprises utilizing a processor associated with a virtual personal assistance system. The processor is configured to perform the steps of obtaining first sensor data from a first sensor inclu...