US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Systems, methods, and vehicles for classifying driving behavior of a target vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,218, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Japan).

"Systems, methods, and vehicles for classifying driving behavior of a target vehicle" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Tomohiro Matsuda (Mountain View, Calif.), Yongkang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and vehicles for classifying driving behavior of a target vehicle are provided. The systems include a controller programmed to identify a tar...