ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,100, issued on July 29, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient behavior prediction" was invented by Amir Yazdani (Mountain View, Calif.), Apeksha Kumavat (Mountain View, Calif.), Gautam Narang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Arjun Narang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for behavior prediction of vehicles in a scene can include: recording a set of observations, determining a scene graph, determining a set of scene features, predicting agent behavior based on the scene graph, and/or controlling an autonomous vehicle. The method functions to determine vehicle controls for an autonomo...