ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,315, issued on June 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle trajectory computed using box-based probabilistic overlap model" was invented by Dong Li (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Victor Puchkarev (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure relate to autonomous vehicle (AV) trajectories computed using a box-based probabilistic overlap model. An example method includes: receiving, by a data processing system of an AV, data descriptive of an agent state of an object relative to the AV; computing an initial overlap region between a first box represent...