US Patent Issued to Woven by Toyota on March 3 for "Systems and methods for cross slope bias estimation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,217, issued on March 3, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for cross slope bias estimation" was invented by Paul J. Ozog (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yucong Lin (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing surface bias estimation strategies. In one embodiment, a method includes processing probe trace data with a factor graph having nodes and factors that describe an estimate of surface bias; and correcting the probe trace data based on the estimate of surface bias."

The patent was filed on Aug. 31, 2023, under Application No....