US Patent Issued to DENSO International America, The Regents of The University of Michigan on Oct. 14 for "Sequential pedestrian trajectory prediction using step attention for collision avoidance" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,301, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc (Southfield, Mich.) and The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Sequential pedestrian trajectory prediction using step attention for collision avoidance" was invented by Neda Masoud (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mahdi Bandegi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Joseph Lull (South Haven, Mich.), Rajesh Malhan (Troy, Mich.) and Ethan Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedestrian tracking system includes: a buffer or a memory configured to store a trajectory sequence of a pedestrian; a step attention module and a control module. The step attention...