US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for risk-bounded control barrier functions" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,598, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for risk-bounded control barrier functions" was invented by Mitchell Black (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Bardh Hoxha (Canton, Mich.), Georgios Fainekos (Novi, Mich.), Tomoya Yamaguchi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing risk-bounded control barrier functions. In one embodiment, a method includes estimating a state of a vehicle; planning a traj...