ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,659, issued on May 26, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Nodal graph and reinforcement-learning model based systems and methods for managing moving agents" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Akila Ganlath (Mountain View, Calif.), Nejib Ammar (San Jose, Calif.) and Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing moving agents is provided. The method comprises identifying goods agents, moving agents, and a plurality of requests within a predetermined area, generating a nodal graph i...