ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,532, issued on July 15, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for online monitoring using a neural model by an automated vehicle" was invented by Bardh Hoxha (Canton, Mich.), Tomoya Yamaguchi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Abdelrahman Hekal (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain) and Sergiy Bogomolov (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to estimating reachable states for ...