ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,982, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Offline optimization of sensor data for agent trajectories" was invented by Filippo Brizzi (London), Luca del Pero (London), Tayyab Naseer (London) and Lorenzo Peppoloni (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein involve a computing system configured to (i) based on image data captured by a vehicle in an environment, obtain observations of a time-sequence of positions of an agent identified within the image data, (ii) generate a first updated time-sequence of positions of the agent by performing a first optimization operation that includes proce...