US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Goal-based motion forecasting" (New York, California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,478, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Goal-based motion forecasting" was invented by Sanjiban Choudhury (Ithaca, N.Y.), Sumit Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Micol Marchetti-Bowick (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects of the present disclosure relate to an example computer-implemented method for predicting the intent of actors within an environment. The example method includes obtaining state data associated with a plurality of actors within the environment and map data indicating a plurality of lanes of the environment. The method includes determining a plurality of potenti...