ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,558, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"End-to-end signalized intersection transition state estimator with scene graphs over semantic keypoints" was invented by Kun-Hsin Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Peiyan Gong (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sudeep Pillai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arjun Bhargava (San Francisco), Shunsho Kaku (Mountain View, Calif.), Hai Jin (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kuan-Hui Lee (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, computer-readable media, techniques, and methodologies are disclosed for performing end-to-end, learning-based keypoint detection and assoc...