B60R 16/0373
Voice control
Official title: {Voice control (in general G10L)}
B60R16/0373 (Voice control) appears on 395 US grants and 392 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60R- Granted patents
- 395
- Published applications
- 392
- Assignees
- 179
- Inventors
- 959
- Latest grant
- 7 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vibration sensing steering wheel to optimize voice command accuracy7 Jul 2026US 12,673,585 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Modalities for authorizing access when operating an automated assistant enabled vehicle19 May 2026US 12,630,173 B2Google Inc.
- Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium12 May 2026US 12,626,699 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Dialogue service device and dialogue system control method12 May 2026US 12,626,701 B2Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- In-vehicle user positioning method, in-vehicle interaction method, vehicle-mounted apparatus, and vehicle28 Apr 2026US 12,612,048 B2Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Control system and method for vehicle trunk24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285202 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Dynamic microphone system for autonomous vehicles3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260650 A1Reveal Innovations, LLC
- A control system for a loudspeaker system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225548 A1Jaguar Land Rover Limited
- In-vehicle information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225549 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Voice activated visual communication system2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184277 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automobile navigation system using real time spoken driving instructions733US 5,177,685 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1993
- Signature filter system544US 4,944,036 A1990
- Voice actuated control system for use in a vehicle486US 4,827,520 APrince Corporation · 1989
- Device control device, speech recognition device, agent device, on-vehicle device control device, navigation device, audio device, device control method, speech recognition method, agent processing method, on-vehicle device control method, navigation method, and audio device control method, and program362US 8,103,510 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood · 2012
- Sensor free vehicle navigation system utilizing a voice input/output interface for routing a driver from his source point to his destination point359US 5,274,560 AAudio Navigation Systems, Inc. · 1993