US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 29 for "Real-time risk reasoning" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,915, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Real-time risk reasoning" was invented by Yunsheng Ma (West Lafayette, Ind.), Amr Abdelraouf (Mountain View, Calif.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to real-time risk reasoning within a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data about a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The method includes, responsive to identifying a...