ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,916, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Traffic light active learning pipeline" was invented by Kun-Hsin Chen (San Francisco), Peiyan Gong (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shunsho Kaku (Mountain View, Calif.), Sudeep Pillai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hai Jin (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sarah Yoo (Mountain View, Calif.), David L Garber (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ryan W. Wolcott (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for developing/updating training datasets for traffic light detection/perception models. V2I-based information may indicate a particular traffic light sta...