ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,558, issued on July 15, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).
"Human-machine interface control system" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) 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, based on sensor data regarding a vehicle and an environment in which the vehicle operates, an event in which the vehicle shoul...