ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,980, issued on March 17, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).
"Apparatus and method for providing a wake-up signal" was invented by Daniel Luncan (Whitley, Great Britain), Jo Parkes (Whitley, Great Britain) and John Cockroft (Whitley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a vehicle includes input means, memory means, and processing means, wherein a wake-up engine is arranged to determine a timestamp in dependence on a predetermined event associated with activation of the wake-up engine, analyse a received audio signal to detect an acoustic event indicative of a wake-up signal ...