ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,725, issued on July 22, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Trajectory and intent prediction" was invented by Kapil Sachdeva (Round Rock, Texas), Sylvain Jacques Prevost (Austin, Texas) and Jianbo Chen (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for trajectory and intent prediction are provided. The methods and systems include operations comprising: receiving an observed trajectory of a user and user behavior information; processing the observed trajectory by a machine learning technique to generate a plurality of predicted trajectories, the machine learning technique being trained to establish a rel...