ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,165, issued on June 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Trajectory prediction by sampling sequences of discrete motion tokens" was invented by Ari Seff (Mountain View, Calif.), Rami Al-Rfou (Menlo Park, Calif.), Angelo Brian Cera (Mountain View, Calif.), Nigamaa Nayakanti (San Jose, Calif.), Aurick Qikun Zhou (San Francisco), Mason Ng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Benjamin Sapp (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Dian Chen (Auxtin, Texas) and Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, 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 generating trajectory ...