US Patent Issued to Zoox on Oct. 7 for "Trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles using attention mechanism" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,737, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles using attention mechanism" was invented by Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for using a machine learning attention mechanism to predict movements, states, and/or trajectories of agents in various environments. In various examples, a prediction component of an autonomous vehicle may analyze sensor data to determine, for individual agents in the environment, unique sets of additional objects that are relevant to predicting the subsequent movement...