US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 16 for "Trajectory prediction using efficient attention neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,079, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Trajectory prediction using efficient attention neural networks" was invented by Rami Al-Rfou (Menlo Park, Calif.), Nigamaa Nayakanti (San Jose, Calif.), Kratarth Goel (Fremont, Calif.), Aurick Qikun Zhou (San Francisco), Benjamin Sapp (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating trajectory predictions for one or more target agents. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain scene context data characterizing a scene in an enviro...