US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on May 12 for "Scope manager for autonomous vehicle" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,677, issued on May 12, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Scope manager for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Jaime S. Camhi Espinoza (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Michael L. Elkins (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system of a vehicle may include one or more processors that receive first data indicating a driving environment of the vehicle while performing autonomous driving, receive second data indicating a direction that a driver of the vehicle is looking at a plurality of time steps, determine a first duration of time that the driver is allowed to look away from a first set of predetermined...