ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,285, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle trajectory tree structure including learned trajectories" was invented by Seungji Lee (San Carlos, Calif.), Gary Linscott (Seattle) and Peter Scott Schleede (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a tree structure based on multiple machine-learned trajectories are described herein. A planning component ("ML system") within a vehicle may receive and encode various types of sensor and/or vehicle data. The ML system can provide the encoded data as input to multiple machine-learning models ("ML models"), each of whi...