MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517079436 A) filed by Cerence Operating Company, Burlington, U.S.A., on Aug. 21, for 'extravehicular speech interface for automotive assistant.'

Inventor(s) include Quast, Holger.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Each vehicle in a fleet has an automotive assistant and an external speech interface. A person who is authorized to interact with an automotive assistant of any vehicle from that fleet is detected as being outside a vehicle from that fleet. After having determined that the person is indeed authorized, an automotive assistant in that vehicle communicates with that person. It does so either by receiving an utterance by that person or by transmitting an utterance to that person."

The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 13, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/012890.

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