ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,840, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for depth synthesis with transformer architectures" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Igor Vasiljevic (Pacifica, Calif.), Adrien D. Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.), Greg Shakhnarovich (Chicago), Matthew Walter (Chicago), Jiading Fang (Chicago) and Rares A. Ambrus (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhanced computer vision capabilities, particularly including depth synthesis, which...