US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on July 14 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for vehicle trajectory and collision prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,352, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for vehicle trajectory and collision prediction" was invented by Matthew J. Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhaoyuan Huo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Julia Pralle (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed apparatuses and methods for trajectory and collision prediction comprising a processor operable to generate, using a machine-learning (ML) model, a ML predicted trajectory of a vehicle and a ML model confidence of the ML predicted trajectory, generate, using a heuristics model, a heuristic predicted trajectory of t...