US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Control barrier functions for safety-critical control of automotive stability" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,388, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control barrier functions for safety-critical control of automotive stability" was invented by Manavendra Balwant Desai (Detroit), Makoto Suminaka (Los Altos, Calif.), James A. Dallas (Los Altos, Calif.) and John K. Subosits (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for operation of a vehicle to prevent the vehicle from entering unsafe driving states. In examples, a current operational state of a vehicle is determined based on sensor data collected by sensors on...