ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,651, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for inferring psychological complexity elicited by visual stimuli" was invented by Yin-Ying Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (San Francisco), Monica PhuongThao Van (Berkeley, Calif.) and Matthew Kyung-Soo Hong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantitatively measuring a psychological complexity of a response to visual stimuli is described. The method includes generating, by a trained machine learning model, different dataset types of reference t...