ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,156, issued on June 23, was assigned to APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Decision-making for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Changchun Liu (Beijing), Yabo Su (Beijing), Yifeng Pan (Beijing), Yixian Li (Beijing), Han Deng (Beijing), Jing Yang (Beijing), Chao Wang (Beijing), Zhenguang Zhu (Beijing) and Liang Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques include: obtaining traveling state information of the autonomous vehicle; obtaining, in response to confirming that there is a traffic object within a preset range for the autonomous vehicle, true motion state information o...