ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,460, issued on March 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"User guide system for a pedestrian path" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to guiding a user travelling along a path. In one embodiment, a method includes predicting, by a processor, a behavior of a user based on at least sensor data received by the processor. The user is travelling on a pedestrian path. The method further includ...