US Patent Issued to PIAGGIO & C. on May 13 for "Method and system for imparting voice commands to a motor vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,679, issued on May 13, was assigned to PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A. (Pontedera, Italy).

"Method and system for imparting voice commands to a motor vehicle" was invented by Mario Santucci (Pontedera, Italy) and Onorino Di Tanna (Pontedera, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imparting commands to a motor vehicle (1) includes a central control unit (23), at least one steered wheel (13), and a steering member (11) for acting on the steered wheel (13). The method includes a step of activating, by an interface device (21) on the steering member (11), a voice recognition function on a smartphone (5) interfaced with the central control...