US Patent Issued to Pony AI on April 21 for "Inferring intent using computer vision" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,955, issued on April 21, was assigned to Pony AI Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Inferring intent using computer vision" was invented by Kevin Sheu (Fremont, Calif.) and Jie Mao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system trains a model to infer an intent of an entity. The model includes one or more sensors to obtain frames of data, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform steps. A first step includes determining, in each frame of the frames, one or more bounding regions, each of the bounding regions enclosing an en...