ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,354, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for scene understanding" was invented by Pietro Blandizzi (Munich), Lorenzo Nardi (Munich) and Ferenc Torok (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating a possible object trajectory. For example, the method includes: analyzing sensor data to detect a moving object in an environment and at least one obstacle that the moving object is unable to traverse; generating a definition for a location of the obstacle in the environment in terms of r...