ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,045, issued on March 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for vehicular-network-assisted federated machine learning" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.), Chang-Heng Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Enes Krijestorac (Los Angeles) and Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for vehicular-network-assisted federated machine learning are disclosed herein. One embodiment transmits first metadata from a connected vehicle to at least one other connected vehicle...