ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,301, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Autonomous vehicle planning and prediction" was invented by Subramanian Ramamoorthy (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Simon Lyons (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Svetlin Valentinov Penkov (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Morris Antonello (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of predicting an external actor trajectory comprises receiving, at a computer, sensor inputs for detecting and tracking an external actor; applying object tracking to the sensor inputs, in order track the external actor, and thereby determine an ob...