ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,415, issued on July 14, was assigned to cogniBIT GmbH (Munich).

"Human intent prediction for driver assistance system" was invented by Alexander Georg Knorr (Munich), Lukas Adam Brostek (Unterhaching, Germany), Johannes Drever (Munich) and Christian Andreas Rossert (Kriens-Luzern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to interfacing with a driver assistance system of the vehicle based on predictions of trajectories of one or more road users in a surrounding of the vehicle and includes determining the predictions based on instances of the behavioral model associated with each of the one or more road us...