US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for inferring user intention in vehicle voice recognition system" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,118, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for inferring user intention in vehicle voice recognition system" was invented by Yoon Jung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment computer-implemented method for predicting an intention of a user includes receiving from a vehicle first utterance data obtained by converting a voice command of the user into text, performing natural language understanding to attempt to decide the intention of the user from the first utterance data, predicting the intention of the us...