ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,688, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for building multi-view machine learning datasets from fleet data" was invented by Simon A. I. Stent (London) and Dennis Park (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for multi-view dataset formation from fleet data is described. The method includes detecting at least a pair of vehicles within a vicinity of one another, and having overlapping viewing frustums of a scene. The method also includes triggering a capture of sensor data from the pair of vehicles. The metho...