ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,896, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Utilizing vehicle sensors and machine learning training to target confident responses to user queries" was invented by Lisa Seacat DeLuca (Baltimore) and Ronald Felice (Summerville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for a query response system that provides targeted query response results related to a vehicle. The computer-implemented method receives a query from a user related to the vehicle. The computer-implemented method further determines a current status of one or more vehicle systems and one or more su...