ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,011, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Notification device and notification method" was invented by Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan), Hiroshi Morimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenta Yamada (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Udara Eshan Manawadu (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With reference to a message table associating a plurality of messages to be notified to a driver of a vehicle with a first condition, a second condition, last notification time of the message, and renotification requirement, a notification device selects messages associated with an identified first ...