ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,240, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for graph neural network based pedestrian action prediction in autonomous driving systems" was invented by Saber Malekmohammadi (Toronto), Tiffany Yee Kay Yau (Markham, Canada), Amir Rasouli (Maple, Canada), Mohsen Rohani (Thornhill, Canada) and Jun Luo (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for spatiotemporal graph modelling of road users in observed frames of an environment in which an autonomous vehicle operates (i.e. a traffic scene), clustering of the road users into c...