ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,019, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cerence Operating Co. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Automotive infotainment system with spatially-cognizant applications that interact with a speech interface" was invented by Nils Lenke (Aachen, Germany), Prasad Mandge (Pune, India), Ketan Kankapure (Pune, India), Aditya Chauhan (Pune, India), Duygu Kanver (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Christian Benien (Aachen, Germany), Kalpeshkumar Bhanubhai Patel (Pune, India), Marina Matveevskaia (Aachen, Germany) and Abbas Ali Vanak (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive processing unit includes an infotainment system having a speech interface...