US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 13 for "Predicting the future movement of agents in an environment using occupancy flow fields" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,898, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Predicting the future movement of agents in an environment using occupancy flow fields" was invented by Reza Mahjourian (Austin, Texas), Jinkyu Kim (Albany, Calif.), Yuning Chai (San Mateo, Calif.), Mingxing Tan (Newark, Calif.), Benjamin Sapp (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco).

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 predicting the future movement of agents in an environment. In particular, the future movement is predicted through occupancy flo...