US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Systems and methods for motion forecasting and planning for autonomous vehicles" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,279, issued on July 1, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for motion forecasting and planning for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Alexander Yuhao Cui (Toronto), Abbas Sadat (Toronto), Sergio Casas (Toronto), Renjie Liao (Pittsburgh) and Raquel Urtasun (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for motion forecasting and planning for autonomous vehicles. For example, a plurality of future traffic scenarios are determined by modeling a joint distribution of actor trajectories for a plurality of actors, as opposed to an approach that models actors individually. As...