US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on June 2 for "Audio cues for driver training" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,420, issued on June 2, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Audio cues for driver training" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to training a vehicle driver using audio cues. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a deviation of a vehicle between an actual path of the vehicle and an ideal path. The ideal path defines a position and a velocity of the vehicle to optimize driving time through a current se...