US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for detecting and regularizing drift in sequential decisions" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,132, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for detecting and regularizing drift in sequential decisions" was invented by Yanxia Zhang (Foster City, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Matthew Klenk (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods to display a plurality of items in a spatial layout, monitor an eye gaze of the user while making sequential decisions about the plurality of items, determine that a drift has occurred, automatically r...