US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for encouraging application exploration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,477, 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 encouraging application exploration" was invented by Emily Sumner (Mountain View, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (San Francisco), Alexandre Filipowicz (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Carter (San Jose, Calif.) and Yekaterina Glazko (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to encouraging exploration within a computing application. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instr...