US 6542795

Patent Overview — US 6542795 B2

Title: "Technique for providing information and control responsive to a request in a vehicle"

Patent number: US6542795B2 (application US10/176,444)

Assignee: American Calcar Inc. (listed as both original and current assignee; Google notes assignee listings may be inaccurate).

Inventors: Michael L. Obradovich, Michael L. Kent, John G. Dinkel.

Key dates (as listed):

• Priority date: 1997-01-28 (noted as an assumption)
• Filing date: 2002-06-20
• Publication of US20020156555A1: 2002-10-24
• Grant/publication: 2003-04-01
• Anticipated expiration: 2017-01-28
• Legal status: Expired – Lifetime

Purpose and plain-language scope (from the supplied text): The patent concerns a technique for providing information and control in a vehicle in response to a request. The excerpt supplies the title and classification data but no abstract, claims, or detailed description. The classifications indicate the subject matter relates to vehicle instrumentation and user interfaces: input arrangements from user to vehicle (B60K35/10), visual output arrangements including display screens and combinations of multiple visual outputs (B60K35/20, /21, /215, /22), and climate-control systems responsive to vehicle driving conditions such as speed or GPS-based position (B60H1/00764, /00771). Also listed is suspension control combined with other vehicle control systems (B60G17/0195). Prior-art keywords listed are: option, vehicle, interface, user, screen. The listed litigation links are not analyzed here per instruction.

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6542795/en

What the excerpt does not establish: It contains no abstract, claims, dependent-claim text, or detailed description, so the precise claimed scope, claim limitations, embodiments, and any specific "request"-handling mechanism cannot be described. Classification codes alone do not define claim coverage. Dates are expressly flagged as assumptions. Litigation, ownership transfers, validity, and prior-art comparisons are outside this overview and are not addressed.