ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,495, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Dialogue system and control method thereof" was invented by In Jik Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dialogue system includes a voice recognition module provided to execute voice recognition, a storage device in which a result of the executed voice recognition is stored, and a controller configured to determine priorities of an external event and the voice recognition when the external event occurs while an utterance of a user is input, and pause the execution of the voice recognition and store a ...