US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on July 21 for "System and method for a scenario-based event trigger" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,399, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"System and method for a scenario-based event trigger" was invented by Xiongyi Cui (Somerville, Mass.), Stephen G. Mcgill (Cambridge, Mass.), Guy Rosman (Newton, Mass.) and Simon A. I. Stent (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scenario-based event triggers is described. The method includes generating, by a first machine-learning (ML) model, feature vectors encoding driving scenarios surrounding an ego vehicle. The method also includes detecting, by a second machine-learning (ML) model, a unique driving scenario outsid...