ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,137, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Shared decision-making with cognitive priors" was invented by Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa (San Jose, Calif.), Guy Rosman (Cambridge, Mass.), Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath (Washington), Emily Sumner (Mountain View, Calif.), Thomas Balch (Somerville, Mass.), Jonathan DeCastro (Arlington, Mass.), Andrew Michael Silva (Cambridge, Mass.) and Laporsha Trinati Dees (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to integrating human decision-making into a mode...