ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,159, issued on June 23, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for data-driven and modular decision making and trajectory generation of an autonomous agent" was invented by Gautam Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Apeksha Kumavat (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arjun Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kinh Tieu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Smart (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Marko Ilievski (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for data-driven, modular decision making and trajectory generation includes a computing system. A method for data-driven, modular decision making and trajectory generation includes: re...