US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Oct. 21 for "Traffic object intent estimation" (Virginia, Oregon, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,951, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Traffic object intent estimation" was invented by Mukhtar Maulimov (Blacksburg, Va.), Thomas Stevens (Portland, Ore.) and Thomas Maslach (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises periodically monitoring, by a processor, lateral position and velocity of vehicle within a predetermined distance from an autonomous vehicle, the vehicle moving in a direction having at least one common attribute with the autonomous vehicle; executing, by the processor, a computer model using the monitored lateral position and velocity of the vehicle, to pre...