ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,940, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer reading storage medium providing notification when user instruction for in-vehicle device indicates a predetermined level of risk" was invented by Kaori Yamada (Nagakute, Japan) and Keiko Nakano (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire a speech of a user to instruct a predetermined device to execute a predetermined function, acquire a level of a risk expected to o...