US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Methods and systems for spatio-temporal regular expression matching" (Arizona, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,086, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for spatio-temporal regular expression matching" was invented by Jacob W. Anderson (Gilbert, Ariz.), Georgios Fainekos (Novi, Mich.), Bardh Hoxha (Canton, Mich.), Hideki Okamoto (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Danil V. Prokhorov (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that implement spatio-temporal query of perception data streams. A system is distinctly designed to implement efficient and flexible spatio-temporal queries, whic...