ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,391, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system mounted on a vehicle and including connected dashboard camera, in-vehicle infotainment, microphone, and speaker, and information processing method" was invented by Yuichi Kusakabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a voice acquisition unit configured to acquire voice, a voice distribution unit configured to input the voice acquired by the voice acquisition unit to a plurality of voice processing units that receive voice and perform processing, a detection unit configured to detect an operat...