US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE BROAD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Reinforcement learning based control of imitative policies for autonomous driving" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,602, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and THE BROAD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Reinforcement learning based control of imitative policies for autonomous driving" was invented by Zhangjie Cao (Stanford, Calif.), Erdem Biyik (Stanford, Calif.), Woodrow Zhouyuan Wang (Stanford, Calif.), Allan Raventos (San Francisco), Adrien Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.), Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.) and Dorsa Sadigh (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an ego agent includes periodically receiving policy information comprisi...