US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on June 23 for "System and method for lane association/transition association with splines" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,166, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"System and method for lane association/transition association with splines" was invented by Noah J. Epstein (Cambridge, Mass.), Namrata Bhakta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kevin W. Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vehicle behavior prediction is described. The method includes detecting a vehicle entering an unmarked road segment. The method also includes determining a set of exit paths available for the detected vehicle to reach different exit lanes of the unmarked road segment. The method further includes pred...