US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on March 4 for "Convolution operator selection" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,501, issued on March 4, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Convolution operator selection" was invented by Stephen G. McGill (Broomall, Pa.), Paul Drews (Watertown, Mass.) and Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes one or more sensors configured to capture aspects of an environment and a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive information about the environment captured by the one or more sensors, determine one or more structures within the environment based on the received information, select a kernel that is parameterized for predic...