US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 2 for "Method and system for modeling personalized car-following driving styles with model-free inverse reinforcement learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,911, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method and system for modeling personalized car-following driving styles with model-free inverse reinforcement learning" was invented by Ziran Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include learning reward functions for a plurality of first vehicles based on first vehicle data associated with the plurality of first vehicles using inverse reinforcement learning, associating each vehic...