ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,516, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Structured multi-agent interactive trajectory forecasting" was invented by Wenjie Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cheolho Park (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco) and Benjamin Sapp (Marina del Rey, 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 agents. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain scene context data characterizing a scene in an environment at a current time point, where the scene includes multiple agents. The one or more c...