US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on March 31 for "Systems and methods for generating a driving trajectory" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,767, issued on March 31, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for generating a driving trajectory" was invented by Alexander Christoph Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating driving trajectories based on vehicle traces through lane gates. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a network of lane gates for a multi-lane road. The method also includes, for a target lane gate in the network, 1) identifying paths of connected lane gates passing through the target lane gate, 2) clustering vehicle tra...