ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,583, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods for spatio-temporal scene-graph embedding for autonomous vehicle applications" was invented by Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque (Irvine, Calif.), Shih-Yuan Yu (Irvine, Calif.), Arnav Vaibhav Malawade (Irvine, Calif.), Deepan Muthirayan (Irvine, Calif.) and Pramod P. Khargonekar (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a Spatiotemporal scene-graph embedding methodology that models scene-graphs and resolves safety-focused tasks for autonomous vehicles. The present invention features a co...