US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Autonomous vehicle prediction layer training" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,791, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Autonomous vehicle prediction layer training" was invented by Thanard Kurutach (Carrboro, N.C.) and Ariel Arturo Perez Chavez (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to autonomous vehicle (AV) training and, more specifically, to AV prediction layer training. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a process for receiving road data representing a real-world environment encountered by an AV and generating, using a prediction layer of the AV, a predicted trajectory of a target vehicle, wherei...