ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,014, issued on April 29, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Method for displaying a state of a voice assistance system, voice assistance system, and motor vehicle" was invented by Jacqueline Cullmann (Braunschweig, Germany) and Julia Schettler (Gifhorn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for displaying a specific state of a voice assistance system for performing a voice assistance function for a motor vehicle. A light strip is provided for providing a specific light distribution, wherein a specific light characteristic of the light strip is associated with the specific state of the voi...