ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,260, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Anhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Method for predicting vehicle trajectory, control apparatus, and vehicle" was invented by Haoyang Fan (Hefei, China), Hailong Qin (Hefei, China), Shaoqing Ren (Hefei, China), Jingyuan Ma (Hefei, China), Gang Sun (Hefei, China), Shaohua Zheng (Hefei, China), Qiuyi Li (Hefei, China) and Xiaoxin Fu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to autonomous driving, and provides a method for predicting a vehicle trajectory. In the method, scenario interaction results of a traffic agent are obtained based on a sta...