US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on March 4 for "Systems and methods for optimizing coordination and communication resources between vehicles using models" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,471, issued on March 4, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for optimizing coordination and communication resources between vehicles using models" was invented by Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.), Stephen G. McGill Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Paul Drews (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to coordinating and optimizing prediction by a model using intermediate data and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications that improves bandwidth utilization. In one embodiment, a method inc...