ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,424, issued on May 5, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Modifying autonomous vehicle behavior prediction based on behavior prediction errors" was invented by Keja Rowe (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device, to identify one or more erroneous predictions of behavior for one or more objects in an environment of an autonomous vehicle traveling along a planned trajectory, and initiate, based on the one or more erroneous predictions, one or more operations to adjust the planned trajectory of the autonomous vehicle. Ea...