US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 25 for "System and method for calculating generalized utilities and choice predictions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,115, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for calculating generalized utilities and choice predictions" was invented by Totte Harri Harinen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rumen Iliev (Milbrae, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (San Francisco), Alexandre Leo Stephen Filipowicz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Emily Sarah Sumner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating generalized utilities and choice predictions is described. The method includes identifying an individual's choice a user desires to predict and re...