ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,411, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Systems and methods for selecting edge nodes for task performance" was invented by Dawei Chen (Milpitas, Calif.), Qi Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selecting an edge node include a processor operable to send a request of bidding to edge nodes regarding performing a task for an inquiry vehicle, receive one or more bids from one or more bidding edge nodes of the...