US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on April 1 for "Human-machine interface control system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,867, issued on April 1, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Human-machine interface control system" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jaime S. Camhi (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory has a human-machine interface module having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify, influenced by sensor data regarding a vehicle and an environment in which the vehicle operates, an event in which the vehicle should perform an autonomous ste...