US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on July 8 for "Method and system for learning reward functions for driving using positive-unlabeled reward learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,415, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Method and system for learning reward functions for driving using positive-unlabeled reward learning" was invented by Blake Wulfe (San Francisco) and Adrien Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving first driving data associated with a first vehicle, receiving second driving data associated with one or more vehicles around the first vehicle, creating training data by labeling the first driving data as positive data and treating the second driving data as unlabeled, and using the training data to train a...