ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,794, issued on July 1, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for predicting trajectories of multiple vehicles" was invented by Yongkang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xuewei Qi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to predicting trajectories of multiple vehicles using graphs and multiple decoding models. In one embodiment, a method includes computing, using an encoding model, a graph having a geographic map and vehicle features associated with...