US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 23 for "Voice controlled autonomous driving system" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,157, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Voice controlled autonomous driving system" was invented by Rouhollah Sayed Jafari (Troy, Mich.), Alireza Esna Ashari Esfahani (San Bruno, Calif.) and Upali P. Mudalige (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice controlled autonomous driving system for determining a trajectory of a vehicle based on a voice command includes one or more controllers executing instructions to receive an electrical signal representative of the voice command, where the voice command indicates a driving maneuver. The controllers convert the electrical...