ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,689, issued on June 17, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Predicting agent trajectories" was invented by Nachiket Deo (San Diego), Oscar Olof Beijbom (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Eric Wolff (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for predicting agent trajectories, which can include generating a graph corresponding to a map of a scene by encoding map features and agent features as node encodings of the graph and determining a policy for application to outgoing edges of the nodes of the graph. Some methods described also include sampling paths for a target vehicle in the scene according to the policy and pred...