ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,878, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Prediction model with variable time steps" was invented by Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing a machine learned model to determine variable step sizes for searching a decision tree are described herein. For example, the techniques may include a computing device implementing a tree search algorithm to search the decision tree comprising nodes representing different possible object actions and/or vehicle actions at a future time. A search of the decision tree can be performed using multiple step...