ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,227, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).
"Peer-to-peer occupancy estimation" was invented by Stephen G. McGill (Cambridge, Mass.), Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.) and Luke S. Fletcher (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for indicating occlusion information at an ego agent includes observing a spatial area from a first viewpoint of one or more first sensors associated with the ego agent. The method also includes identifying the spatial area as an occluded area in accordance with observing the spatial area from a second viewpoint of the one or more first sensors after ob...