US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 16 for "Pedestrian behavior prediction with 3D human keypoints" (California, Maryland, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,081, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pedestrian behavior prediction with 3D human keypoints" was invented by Xinwei Shi (Cupertino, Calif.), Tian Lan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Chandler Stroud (Tempe, Ariz.), Zhishuai Zhang (Baltimore), Junhua Mao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeonhyung Kang (San Jose, Calif.), Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jiachen Li (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for agent behavior prediction using keypoint data. One of the methods includes obtaining dat...