ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,728, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"System and method for interpretable motion prediction and vehicle navigation" was invented by Victoria Magdalena Dax (Stanford, Calif.), Jiachen Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Enna Sachdeva (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nakul Agarwal (San Francisco) and Mykel J. Kochenderfer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system includes a ranged sensor that generates time-series data indicating positions of objects in an environment, and at least one processor that receives the t...