ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,673, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Lane change prediction on highways" was invented by Ashish Biren Mehta (San Diego), Monu Surana (San Diego), Avdhut Joshi (San Marcos, Calif.), Reuben Manappallil Varghese John (San Diego) and Chloe Benz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for drive trajectory prediction. In one or more aspects, an ego vehicle applies a machine learning model to one or more agent tensors and one or more map tensors associated with a target vehicle to obtain a lane change classification label representing a predicted lane change intention of the target veh...