US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on July 8 for "Virtual conversation agent for controlling multiple vehicular intelligent virtual assistants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,602, issued on July 8, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Virtual conversation agent for controlling multiple vehicular intelligent virtual assistants" was invented by Stefan Marti (Oakland, Calif.), Evgeny Burmistrov (Saratoga, Calif.), Priya Seshadri (San Francisco) and Joseph Verbeke (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an internal bidirectional communication system configured for communication with a first person disposed in a vehicle; an internal-facing intelligent virtual assistant communicatively coupled to the internal bidirectional communication system; an exter...