US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for enhancing instructions provided by a vehicular virtual assistant" (Maine, Massachusetts, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,291, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for enhancing instructions provided by a vehicular virtual assistant" was invented by Thomas M. Balch (Damariscotta, Maine), Emily Sarah Sumner (Cambridge, Mass.), Guy Rosman (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan A DeCastro (Arlington, Mass.), Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath (Washington), Andrew Michael Silva (Cambridge, Mass.) and Xiongyi Cui (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing instructions provided by a vehicular virtual assistant are disclosed her...