US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on June 16 for "Methods and systems for avoiding offensive language based on personas" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,395, issued on June 16, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for avoiding offensive language based on personas" was invented by Francine R. Chen (Menlo Park, Calif.), Matthew Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Carter (San Jose, Calif.) and Tatiana Lau (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed include identifying a topic and a perspective of an input text to be sent to a receiver, determining a receiver perspective based on the topic of the input text and a receiver persona associated with the receiver, determi...