US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for investigating interactions between simulated humans" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,808, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for investigating interactions between simulated humans" was invented by Matthew Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (Chape Hill, N.C.), Nikos Arechiga (San Mateo, Calif.) and Charlene C. Wu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor configured to build a model of human behavior that can be assigned to a simulated human, where the model is trained on a dataset of interactions between humans, and parameters of the model can be adjusted. The processor is further configured to build a ...