ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,830, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Path generation based on predicted actions" was invented by Sammy Omari (Pittsburgh), Kevin C. Gall (Dover, N.H.), Juraj Kabzan (Boston), Hans Andersen (Singapore), Bence Cserna (Nahant, Mass.) and Scott Drew Pendleton (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and systems for semantic behavior filtering for prediction improvement. A method for operating an autonomous vehicle, is provided. The method includes obtaining, by at least one processor, semantic image data associated with an environment where an autonomous vehicle is operating. The meth...