US Patent Issued to Woven by Toyota on March 24 for "Systems and methods for mode confusion avoidance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,482, issued on March 24, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for mode confusion avoidance" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to mode confusion avoidance. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a routine path; determining a likelihood of expected autonomous driving assistance based on a location within the routine path; and generating a notification if autonomous driving assistance has not been enabled and the likelihood exceeds a threshold."...