ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,181, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Response system, response method, and storage medium" was invented by Ryosuke Nakanishi (Nisshin, Japan) and Hikaru Sugata (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A response system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the question sentence of a user, a response sentence selection unit configured to select a response sentence, stored in a storage unit in advance, according to the acquired question sentence, a response sentence conversion unit configured to convert the selected response sentence according to the question sentence, and a...