ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,973, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for determining object intention through visual attributes" was invented by Davi Eugenio Nascimento Frossard (Toronto), Eric Randall Kee (Pittsburgh) and Raquel Urtasun (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining object intentions through visual attributes are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, one or more regions of interest. The regions of interest can be associated with surrounding environment of a first vehicle. The method can include determining, by a computing system, sp...