US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Vibration sensing steering wheel to optimize voice command accuracy" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,585, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vibration sensing steering wheel to optimize voice command accuracy" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), George M. Evans (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Philip J. Babian (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method employ vibration sensors on board a vehicle to effectively identify and implement voice commands. The vibration sensors provide vibration signals corresponding to the speech of vehicle occupants to a controller. The controller may verify ...