ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,032, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining prediction times for a model" 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 vehicle computing device to determine a time horizon for a prediction are described herein. For example, the techniques may include the vehicle computing device receiving sensor data from a sensor and using the sensor data to determine an amount of time in the future to make a prediction associated with an autonomous vehicle in a real-world environment or a simulated environment. The vehicle comput...