ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,924, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for responding to audible commands and/or adjusting vehicle components based thereon" was invented by Nikhil Gowda (San Francisco) and Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adjusting vehicle components based on audible commands are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of adjustable vehicle components, an audio device, and a controller. The audio device is configured to receive an audible command generate corresponding command data. The controller ...