ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,177, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for determining vehicle control based on estimated realization delay" was invented by Sarah Koehler (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining a type and an issue time of a vehicle control command based on an estimated realization delay. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a first realization delay associated with a first control command identifying a ...