US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for detecting impaired decision-making pedestrians" (Michigan, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,781, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for detecting impaired decision-making pedestrians" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Philip J Babian (Canton, Mich.), Ali C Eren (Flower Mound, Texas), William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, Mich.), Rebecca L Kirschweng (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Dianne O Tykoski (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to identifying and assisting pedest...