ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,877, issued on June 24, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods related to controlling autonomous vehicle(s)" was invented by James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh), Sanjiban Choudhury (Pittsburgh), Venkatraman Narayanan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Arun Venkatraman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations process, using machine learning (ML) layer(s) of ML model(s), actor(s) from a past episode of locomotion of a vehicle and stream(s) in an environment of the vehicle during the past episode to forecast associated trajectories, for the vehicle and for each of the actor(s), with...