ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,194, issued on April 21, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Coordinating use of different motion prediction models to predict a location of a mobile robot at a future point in time" was invented by Sarah M. Koehler (San Jose, Calif.) and Carrie G. Bobier-Tiu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for coordinating use of different motion prediction models to predict a location of a mobile robot at a future point in time can include a first motion prediction model module, a second motion prediction model module, a decision module, and an actu...