ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,608, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Route-based activity recommendation using artificial intelligence" was invented by Imad Zahid (Carrollton, Texas) and Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of storing preferences of an occupant of a vehicle within a database, receiving data from a sign that is within a field of view of the occupant as the vehicle is travelling along a route that includes the sign, generating display content for the sign which includes custom data integra...