ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,949, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Stack AV Co. (Mount Pleasant, Pa.).

"Prediction modules for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Randy Schur (Pittsburgh), Thomas Petroff (Gibsonia, Pa.), Mark Ollis (Pittsburgh) and Christopher Hazard (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle based on predicted behavior of one or more actors on a road comprises receiving input data comprising sensor data from one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle about one or more actors on a road; generating an objective prediction based on the input data comprising a probability that a first actor...