ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,878, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Call word learning data generation device and method" was invented by Eui Hyeok Lee (Gimpo-si, South Korea), Hyung Sik Gim (Siheung-si, South Korea), Han Woong Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Woo Moon (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device and method for generating call word learning data, and the call word learning data generation device includes a processor and storage. The storage stores utterance data and an utterance phrase corresponding to the utterance da...