US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 30 for "Task-informed behavior planning" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,072, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Task-informed behavior planning" was invented by Xin Huang (Cambridge, Mass.), Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.), Ashkan Mohammadzadeh Jasour (Merced, Calif.), Stephen G. McGill Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.), John J. Leonard (Newton, Mass.) and Brian C. Williams (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for task-informed planning by a behavior planning system of a vehicle includes observing a previous trajectory of an agent within a distance...