US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on May 26 for "Building the trust of a vehicle occupant in an automated vehicle function" (Massachusetts, Maine, California, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,100, issued on May 26, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Building the trust of a vehicle occupant in an automated vehicle function" was invented by Emily Sarah Sumner (Cambridge, Mass.), Guy Rosman (Cambridge, Mass.), Xinyue Hu (Irvine, Calif.), Jonathan A. DeCastro (Arlington, Mass.), Andrew Michael Silva (Cambridge, Mass.), Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath (Washington), Thomas M. Balch (Damariscotta, Maine) and Xiongyi Cui (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to building the trust of an oc...