ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,382, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Motion planning using spatio-temporal convex corridors" was invented by Weize Zhang (Markham, Canada), Peyman Yadmellat (North York, Canada) and Zhiwei Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer-readable media for path planning for an autonomous vehicle, including receiving data defining upper and lower bounds of a spatio-temporal convex corridor, and computing a plurality of control point times within a corridor start time and a corridor end time. For each of the control point times, respective control point maxim...