ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,436, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for vehicles navigating roads using a control model trained with residual policies" was invented by Vindula M. Jayawardana (Cambridge, Mass.), Yashar Zeiynali Farid (San Jose, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to an automated vehicle (AV) navigating on roads with a control model trained using residual policies for reducing error. In one embodiment, a ...