ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,873, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method of captions for triggers" was invented by Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.), Yen-Ling Kuo (Cambridge, Mass.), Stephen G. Mcgill (Broomall, Pa.) and Simon A.I. Stent (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for triggering capture of diverse driving data from captions is described. The method includes training a discriminator network to identify similarities between a received text description and a received scene description. The method also includes feeding a trained discriminator...