US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for selectively communicating to a user via a system 1 or system 2 channel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,948, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for selectively communicating to a user via a system 1 or system 2 channel" was invented by Rumen Iliev (Millbrae, Calif.), Kent Lyons (Los Altos, Calif.), Charlene C. Wu (San Francisco), Matthew Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanxia Zhang (Foster City, Calif.) and Yue Weng (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selecting a channel of communication based on a type of thinking employed by a user for a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining that a user is employing ...