ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,290, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to May Mobility Inc (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method and system for predicting external agent behavior" was invented by Jacob Crossman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kapil Borle (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Timothy Saucer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Edwin B. Olson (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting external agent behavior can include: receiving decisioning data, identifying a set of environmental agents (e.g., external agents), and evaluating a set of hypotheses for each environmental agent. A system for predicting external agent behavior can include a computing system and a sensor suite (...