ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,913, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle artificial intelligence assistant for agent misbehavior accident prevention and related method" was invented by Divya Garikapati (San Jose, Calif.) and Hiroshi Yasuda (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for minimizing the effects of agent misbehaviors using an in-vehicle artificial intelligence system. In one example, the system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory includes instructions that cause the processor to receive an utterance input from an occupan...