ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,012, issued on July 29.
"Method for influencing entities at a roadway intersection" was invented by Michael Paris (Mountain View, Calif.) and Carol Reiley (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for influencing entities proximal a road surface includes, at an autonomous vehicle: over a first period of time, detecting a pedestrian proximal a road surface; predicting an initial path of the pedestrian an initial confidence score for the initial path of the pedestrian based on and motion of the pedestrian during the first period of time; in response to the initial confidence score falling below a t...