US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for assisting a driver using a foundation model in a shared-autonomy driving mode of a vehicle" (Massachusetts, Maine, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,392, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for assisting a driver using a foundation model in a shared-autonomy driving mode of a vehicle" was invented by Andrew Michael Silva (Cambridge, Mass.), Emily Sarah Sumner (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan A. DeCastro (Arlington, Mass.), Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath (Washington), Thomas M. Balch (Damariscotta, Maine), Xiongyi Cui (Somerville, Mass.) and Guy Rosman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assisting a driver using a foundation model in a shared...