US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for training drivers via vehicle light control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,407, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for training drivers via vehicle light control" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to training a vehicle driver based on in-cabin or external light triggers. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to ...