US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 31 for "Spoken notifications for acoustic vehicle alerting systems" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,107, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Spoken notifications for acoustic vehicle alerting systems" was invented by Brian Karl Lickfelt (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification system for a vehicle is disclosed. The system can incorporate speech-based feedback to be presented via the acoustic vehicle alerting system (AVAS) for the vehicle. In some embodiments, the AVAS can generate sounds to improve safety of pedestrians when the vehicle is in motion, while also being equipped to produce spoken words conveying information about a vehicle-related condition. In some cases, the system ...