ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,193, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for determining classification of a vehicle domain or an external domain based on user speech and a speech recognition system for a vehicle" was invented by Sung Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Kyowoong Choo (Seoul, South Korea) and Chang Woo Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a vehicle domain includes: converting a user's speech into text; and classifying the user's speech into a vehicle domain or an external domain based on the text, wherein the classifying of t...