ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,886, issued on March 17, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Motion prediction" was invented by Alexandre Silva (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Alexander Heavens (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Steffen Jaekel (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Bence Magyar (Bristol, Great Britain) and Alejandro Bordallo (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of predicting behaviour of an agent for executing an objective of a mobile robot in the vicinity of the agent, in dependence on the predicted behaviour comprises: determining a reference path, wherein multiple actions are available to the ag...