ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,023, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan), CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method for diverse sequential point cloud forecasting" was invented by Junyu Nan (Pittsburgh), Xinshuo Weng (Toronto), Jean Mercat (Mountain View, Calif.), Blake Warren Wulfe (San Francisco), Rowan Thomas McAllister (San Jose, Calif.), Adrien David Gaidon (Mountain View, Calif.), Nicholas Andrew Rhinehart (Berkeley, Calif.) and Kris Makoto Kitani (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method ...