ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,532, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Robust behavior prediction neural networks through non-causal agent based augmentation" was invented by Benjamin James Caine (San Francisco), Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Sapp (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Scott Morgan Ettinger (San Carlos, Calif.), Wei Chai (Cupertino, Calif.), Rebecca Dawn Roelofs (Oakland, Calif.) and Liting Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for predicting future trajectories of agents in an environment. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to re...