ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,171, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Determining responses to user requests with vehicle information to enable learning" was invented by Erik St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Maarten Sierhuis (San Francisco) and Corey Heath (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may maintain historical vehicle information, collected from multiple vehicles in a vehicle transportation network, in a historical database. The historical vehicle information for a vehicle may include historical data elements corresponding to data types. The system may receive a user request via a communications n...