US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on May 27 for "Systems and methods for displaying trajectories for autonomous vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,982, issued on May 27, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for displaying trajectories for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Mikio David (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and John C. Rafferty (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a computing device configured to detect an object in an external environment via an external sensor. The computing device determines a trajectory for navigation relative the object based on a trust zone. The trust zone is selected based on a trust parameter. The computing device instructs a display device to render a ...