US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Methods and systems for long-term trajectory prediction by extending a prediction horizon" (California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,864, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for long-term trajectory prediction by extending a prediction horizon" was invented by Elena Corina Grigore (Redwood City, Calif.), Andrew Hartnett (West Hartford, Conn.), Jagjeet Singh (Pittsburgh) and Constantin Savtchenko (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for planning a trajectory for a vehicle are disclosed. The methods include generating first predicted states of an object in an environment of the vehicle at one or more first time steps during a first prediction horizon using a machine le...