ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,104, issued on April 29, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Image synthesis for discrete track prediction" was invented by Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating discrete track data for object(s) in an environment are described herein. For example, the techniques may include a decoder of a variable autoencoder may generate, based on first latent variable data associated with an object and a first time, first output data representing a first discrete occupancy representation for the object at the first time. A diffusion model may generate, based on the first ...