ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,308, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Active prediction based on object trajectories" was invented by Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore), Lichao Ma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chonhyon Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew Van Heukelom (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for accurately predicting and avoiding collisions with objects detected in an environment of a vehicle are discussed herein. A vehicle computing device can implement a model to output data indicating costs for potential intersection points between the object and the vehicle in the future. The model may employ a control polic...