ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,799, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"State prediction system, member determination system, and state prediction method" was invented by Yasuo Katsuhara (Susono, Japan), Tomoya Takatani (Nisshin, Japan) and Hayato Yamaguchi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state prediction system includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a current state value indicating a current state of a targeted individual in a group. The controller is configured to acquire a state propagation amount indicating a state amount propagated from another person in the group to the targeted i...