US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 3 for "Systems and methods for rear voice recognition (VR) conflict monitoring to reduce drive distraction" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,227, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for rear voice recognition (VR) conflict monitoring to reduce drive distraction" was invented by Ashwin Kulkarni (Superior Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing rear voice recognition (VR) conflict monitoring are provided. The method may comprise receiving one or more VR inputs and, using a computing device, determining whether the one or more VR inputs trigger one or more driver actions or passenger actions, determining whether a driver action is related to...