ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,241, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Behavior-guided path planning in autonomous machine applications" was invented by Urs Muller (Keyport, N.J.), Mariusz Bojarski (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Chenyi Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Bernhard Firner (Highland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a machine learning model-such as a deep neural network (DNN)-may be trained to use image data and/or other sensor data as inputs to generate two-dimensional or three-dimensional trajectory points in world space, a vehicle orientation, and/or a vehicle state. For example, sensor data that represent...