US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Traffic signal understandings and representation for prediction, planning, and control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,086, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Traffic signal understandings and representation for prediction, planning, and control" was invented by Kuan-Hui Lee (San Francisco), Charles Christopher Ochoa (San Francisco), Arjun Bhargava (San Francisco), Chao Fang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kun-Hsin Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle prediction, planning, and control is described. The method includes separately encoding traffic state information at an intersection into corresponding traffic state latent spaces...