US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for assessing risk of potential decisions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,807, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for assessing risk of potential decisions" was invented by Yanxia Zhang (Foster City, Calif.), Yue Weng (San Mateo, Calif.), Matthew Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Rumen Iliev (Millbrae, Calif.), Charlene C. Wu (San Francisco) and Kent Lyons (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a processor of a device, the method including determining one or more user values, determining a prompt requiring a decision, and receiving a user selection to one or more choi...