ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,776, issued on March 31, was assigned to CreateAI Inc. (San Diego).

"Data-driven prediction-based system and method for trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Xing Sun (San Diego), Wutu Lin (San Diego), Liu Liu (San Diego), Kai-Chieh Ma (San Diego), Zijie Xuan (San Diego) and Yufei Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data-driven prediction-based system and method for trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: generating a first suggested trajectory for an autonomous vehicle; generating predicted resulting trajectories of proximate agents using a predi...