ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,008, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Applied Intuition Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using predictive visual anchors to control an autonomous vehicle" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Volkmar Uhlig (Cupertino, Calif.), Akash J. Sagar (Redwood City, Calif.), Nima Soltani (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Feng Tian (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using predictive visual anchors to control an autonomous vehicle, including: determining, based on a plurality of frames of video data from a camera of an autonomous vehicle, one or more predicted visual anchors, wherein the one or more predicted visual anchors...