ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,319, issued on June 3, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Multi-task machine-learned models for object intention determination in autonomous driving" was invented by Sergio Casas (Toronto), Raquel Urtasun (Toronto) and Wenjie Luo (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, the disclosed systems and methods utilize multi-task machine-learned models for object intention determination in autonomous driving applications. For example, a computing system can receive sensor data obtained relative to an autonomous vehicle and map data associated with a surrounding geographic environment of the autonomous vehicle. The...