ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,667, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of processing dialogue, user terminal, and dialogue system" was invented by Jaemin Moon (Yongin-Si, South Korea), Minjae Park (Seongnam-Si, South Korea) and Sungwang Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of processing a dialogue may include: monitoring a setting value for a setting item of a vehicle; in response to the setting value not matching a target value for the setting item, generating a system speech based on the target value and the setting value; and transmitting the generate...