ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,579, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for registering devices of autonomous vehicle based on trajectory alignment" was invented by Qingqing Xie (Beijing), Yanfu Zhang (Beijing) and Jiali Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration method and a registration apparatus for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes: generating a first trajectory curve based on first detection poses of a vehicle-mounted camera at a plurality of first time points, generating a second trajectory curve based on second detection poses of a vehicle...