ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,037, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle operation with machine learning" was invented by Ding Zhao (Pittsburgh), Haohong Lin (Pittsburgh), Yuming Niu (Northville, Mich.), Wenhao Ding (San Jose, Calif.), Zuxin Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kalpak Kalvit (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to operate a system based on predictions output from the machine learning system including predicted states, actions, rewards, and costs, wherein the machine learning ...