ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,694, issued on March 25, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for sensor data processing and object detection and motion prediction for robotic platforms" was invented by Abhishek Mohta (San Mateo, Calif.), Fang-Chieh Chou (Redwood City, Calif.), Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez (Wexford, Pa.), Brian C. Becker (Pittsburgh) and Nemanja Djuric (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and predicting the motion of objects within the surrounding environment of a system such as an autonomous vehicle. For example, an autonomous vehicle can obtain sensor data fro...