US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for planning lane-change actions considering traffic stability in target lane" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,740, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for planning lane-change actions considering traffic stability in target lane" was invented by Yashar Zeiynali Farid (Mountain View, Calif.), Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, Calif.), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning lane-change actions considering string stability in a target lane is provided. The method includes learning a car following model based on traini...