ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,413, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Contrastive training of object trajectory encoders and text encoders" was invented by Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.) and Sean Konz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for training contrastive models including object trajectory encoders and text encoders for evaluating, classifying, and/or predicting the movements and behaviors of dynamic objects in driving environments. A training system may receive sets of ground truth trajectory data describing movements of objects within driving environments, and associate...