ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,494, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method for interaction with occupants of a motor vehicle" was invented by Karsten Belz (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Steffen Ross (Wettstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for interaction with occupants of a motor vehicle, including the steps of receiving a time specification from a location remote from the motor vehicle, detecting an image using an image detection device arranged on the motor vehicle within the time specification, sending the detected image to a location remote from the motor vehicle, receiving an image from a location remote fro...