US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 5 for "Trajectory prediction from multi-sensor fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,436, issued on May 5, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Trajectory prediction from multi-sensor fusion" was invented by Yu Ouyang (Menlo Park, Calif.), Daniel Ho (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alper Ayvaci (San Jose, Calif.), Tencia Lee (San Francisco) and Bayram Safa Cicek (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for predicting a trajectory an autonomous vehicle (AV) are disclosed. A method includes generating, based on sensor data from a sensing system of the AV, one or more embeddings, generating, using a machine learning model (MLM) and the one or more embeddings, one or more predicted fut...