ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,733, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for generating uniform frames having sensor and agent data" was invented by Chao Fang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Charles Christopher Ochoa (San Francisco), Kuan-Hui Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Kun-Hsin Chen (San Francisco) and Visak Kumar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a manner of generating and relating frames that improves the retrieval of sensor and agent data for processing by different vehicle tasks. In one emb...