ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,170, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Bulington, Mass.).
"Interactive audio entertainment system for vehicles" was invented by Yitshak Lior Ben Gigi (Burlington, Mass.) and Caitlin Vachon (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for interacting with an audio stream to obtain lyric information, control playback of the audio stream, and control aspects of the audio stream. In some instances, end users can request that the audio stream play with a lead vocal track or without a lead vocal track. Obtaining lyric information includes receiving via a text to speech module an audio playback of the...