US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 4 for "Behavior planning for autonomous vehicles in yield scenarios" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,007, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Behavior planning for autonomous vehicles in yield scenarios" was invented by Fangkai Yang (Seattle), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.), Yizhou Wang (San Ramon, Calif.), Rotem Aviv (San Diego), Julia Ng (San Jose, Calif.), Birgit Henke (Seattle), Hon Leung Lee (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yunfei Shi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a yield scenario may be identified for a first vehicle. A wait element is received that encodes a first path for the first vehicle to traverse a yield area and a second path for a second vehicle to trav...