US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK on March 3 for "Estimating a trajectory of an object in an environment" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,956, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Estimating a trajectory of an object in an environment" was invented by Pavel Tokmakov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ishaan Chandratreya (Cambridge, Mass.), Shuran Song (Palo Alto, Calif.), Carl Vondrick (New York), Simon Stent (London) and Huy Ha (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for interacting with an object includes identifying, via a keypoint classifier, one or more uncertainty regions in an environment based on an...