ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,857, issued on May 13, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Path-based trajectory prediction" was invented by Sepideh Afshar (Cambridge, Mass.), Akshay Bhagat (Pittsburgh), Lu Lu (Upton, Mass.), Balarama Raju Buddharaju (Pittsburgh) and Henggang Cui (Allison Park, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, techniques are described for path-based trajectory prediction (e.g., for autonomous driving). The technique includes: obtaining information about one or more agents in a portion of an environment where a vehicle is operating, the information including data associated with locations of the one or more agents in the...