ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,357, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System for labeling a data set" was invented by Monica PhuongThao Van (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yin-Ying Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Kenton Michael Lyons (Los Altos, Calif.) and Francine Chen (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for labeling a data set by a coding model includes generating multiple sets of related initial labels based on processing a data set with a group of initial labels. The method also includes determining a quantity of occurrences, within the data set, of each on...