US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Vehicle taillight recognition based on a velocity estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,161, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle taillight recognition based on a velocity estimation" was invented by Kuan-Hui Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Charles Christopher Ochoa (San Francisco), Arjun Bhargava (San Francisco) and Chao Fang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes associating, by a velocity model, one or more objects within the environment with a respective velocity instance label. The method also includes selectively, by a recurrent network of the ta...