ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,282, issued on June 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Trajectory prediction using diffusion models" was invented by Chiyu Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andre Liang Cornman (San Francisco), Cheolho Park (Palo Alto, Calif.), Benjamin Sapp (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Yin Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating trajectory predictions for one or more target agents, e.g., a vehicle, a cyclist, or a pedestrian, in an environment. In one aspect, one of the methods ...