ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,500, issued on July 14.

"Trajectory determination incorporating remote operations" was invented by Yan Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alec Jacob Farid (Commack, N.Y.), Jeffrey Loris Irion (Castro Valley, Calif.), Sutej Pramod Kulgod (Foster City, Calif.) and Ruikun Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cost associated with a candidate trajectory can be determined based on whether a vehicle has received a teleoperation command at a time associated with the cost evaluation. In some cases, an example system is configured to determine the cost for a candidate trajectory based on at least one of: (i) context data representing ...