US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on May 5 for "Method, device and computer program product for controlling a functional unit of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,391, issued on May 5, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method, device and computer program product for controlling a functional unit of a vehicle" was invented by Markus Leder (Stuttgart, Germany) and Sabrina Lamberth-Cocca (Wildberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-part keywords for activating a speech operating system are recognized by receiving a phonetic sequence and checking the phonetic sequence for the presence of a first part of the keyword. Only if the first part is recognized, the phonetic sequence is checked for the presence of a second part of the keyword. The speech operating syste...