ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,409, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle control using machine-learned attention over spatiotemporally encoded sensor data" was invented by Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.) and Jackson Owen Waschura (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting, tracking, and/or predicting a future state of an object may include encoding spatiotemporal data associated with sensors that generate sensor data used to detect, track, and predict future state data of the object. A first machine-learned model may generate an embedding for a subset of sensor data associated with a ray emanat...