US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 21 for "Intervention behavior prediction with continuous confounders" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,413, issued on July 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Intervention behavior prediction with continuous confounders" was invented by Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nigamaa Nayakanti (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for intervention behavior prediction. A method includes receiving data characterizing a scene that includes a first agent and a second agent and receiving intervention data specifying a planned intervention to be performed by the second agent. A conditional behavior prediction o...