US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 22 for "Robot, communication system, communication method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,489, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Robot, communication system, communication method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Yuka Hashiguchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot, a communication system, a communication method, and a program capable of effectively indicating to a communication target person that he/she is a person a communication target are provided. A robot according to the embodiment includes a specifying unit configured to specify a communication target person to be communicated with from among persons present in the vicinity of the robot, an acquis...