US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Dec. 23 for "Voice pre-processing pipeline for exterior communications on autonomous vehicle" (California, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,003, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Voice pre-processing pipeline for exterior communications on autonomous vehicle" was invented by Xin Chen (San Antonio), Yu Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kanthasamy Chelliah (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Amanda Lind (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for vehicles to communicate with people outside the vehicle. In particular, a two-way communication system is provided including exterior microphone arrays on the vehicle. Calls performed from the exterior of a vehicle can be difficult to implement with acceptable quality in noisy enviro...