US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Nov. 3 for "Lane selection using connected vehicle data including lane connectivity and input uncertainty information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,209, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Lane selection using connected vehicle data including lane connectivity and input uncertainty information" was invented by Yashar Zeiynali Farid (Mountain View, Calif.), Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include generating a dynamic lane-level forward graph including a plurality of nodes for a road. The method may include computing weights for each action of a vehicle traveling from one n...