ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,739, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Tree based behavior predictor" was invented by Gopi Krishna Tummala (San Diego), Monu Surana (San Diego), Ahmed Kamel Sadek (San Diego), Tianqi Ye (San Diego) and Avdhut Shreenivas Joshi (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods and devices for training and implementing a tree-based behavior prediction model for use in autonomous vehicle control systems. Some embodiments may include labeling real-world autonomous vehicle run data to indicate an insight of the data, selecting an insight decision tree of the tree-based behavio...