US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "System and method for finding occluded cargo" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,951, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System and method for finding occluded cargo" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally describes a system for monitoring a storage compartment of a vehicle comprising a first sensor configured to detect a loading or unloading event, a second sensor configured to capture data regarding one or more items within the storage compartment of the vehicle, wherein the second sensor captures video data of t...