ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,816, issued on March 3, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for determining a symbolic expression from data using regressive modeling" was invented by Nikos Arechiga Gonzalez (San Mateo, Calif.), Rumen Iliev (Millbrae, Calif.), Francine Chen (Menlo Park, Calif.), Yin-ying Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Kent Lyons (Los Altos, Calif.), Yanxia Zhang (Foster City, Calif.) and Heishiro Toyoda (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a manner of determining an interpretable mo...