US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY on March 25 for "Methods and systems for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,023, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, Canada).

"Methods and systems for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking" was invented by Baik Hoh (Mountain View, Calif.), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hao Yang (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking includes obtaining gaze directions of drivers of a plurality of connected vehicles in a region of a road. The method also includes de...