ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,938, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Behavior-conditioned message stylization" was invented by Guy Rosman (Cambridge, Mass.), Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa (San Jose, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Carlos, Calif.), Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath (Washington), Jonathan DeCastro (Arlington, Mass.), Tiffany L Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Avinash Balachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to stylizing messages within a vehicle according to an occupant and a current con...