ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,974, issued on May 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Verification of vehicle prediction function" was invented by Akshay Vijay Gokhale (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Subrata Kumar Kundu (Canton, Mich.) and Yashodeep Dilip Lonari (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system receives sensor data from sensors on board a vehicle. Based at least on the sensor data indicating an anomaly has occurred and is affecting a travel path of the vehicle, an uncertainty threshold is compared with an uncertainty value associated with a prediction model. For instance, the uncertainty value may be indicati...