ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,770, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Predicting a state of a computer-controlled entity" was invented by Andreas Look (Stuttgart, Germany), Chen Qiu (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Melih Kandemir (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for enabling control or monitoring of a computer-controlled entity operating in an environment by predicting a future state of the computer-controlled entity and/or its environment using sensor data which is indicative of a current state of the computer-controlled entity and/or its environment. The method includes using ...