US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for collision control of moving vehicles surrounded by vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,545, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and systems for collision control of moving vehicles surrounded by vehicles" was invented by Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amr Abdelraouf (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of methods and systems include determining a driving maneuver to be performed by an ego vehicle based on a road geometry and a lane geometry, the ego vehicle surrounded by one or more surrounding vehicles, retrieving a trajectory...