ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,467, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for personalized autonomous driving" was invented by Andrew P. Best (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mariah L. Schrum (Atlanta) and Matthew C. Gombolay (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for personalizing autonomous driving. The system can receive historical data on a driver of the vehicle's performance and population data indicating a population driving style. Speed data can be recorded as the driver of the vehicle dri...