ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,484, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information notification system, information notification method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Masahiro Yamashita (Seto, Japan) and Takashi Yamaguchi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information notification system displays a notification to a user of a vehicle on a display device. A first type notification is a notification of road traffic information on a road or traffic around the vehicle. A second type notification is a notification of information not belonging to the road traffic information ...