ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,532, issued on July 15, was assigned to ISEE (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Latent belief space planning using a trajectory tree" was invented by Dicong Qiu (Pittsburgh), Yibiao Zhao (Cambridge, Mass.) and Chris L. Baker (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for latent belief space planning include: during execution of an autonomous agent configured to control operation of a physical mechanism, obtaining a current observation of a physical environment; based at least on the current observation of the physical environment, generating a trajectory tree that represents possible trajectories in a belief space, wherein nodes of the ...