US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle agent device, vehicle agent system, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,133, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle agent device, vehicle agent system, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Keiko Nakano (Kawasaki, Japan), Chikage Kubo (Chofu, Japan), Eiichi Maeda (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Nishizawa (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle agent device receives a captured image and vehicle information from an on-board unit, identifies an occupant from the captured image, specifies attributes of the occupant it identified, searches for vehicle functions corresponding to the attributes it specified, and sends, as description information...