US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 30 for "Yield scenario encoding for autonomous systems" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,276, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Yield scenario encoding for autonomous systems" was invented by David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.), Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.), Miguel Sainz Serra (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vaibhav Thukral (Bellevue, Wash.) and Berta Rodriguez Hervas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, autonomous vehicles are enabled to negotiate yield scenarios in a safe and predictable manner. In response to detecting a yield scenario, a wait element data structure is generated that encodes geometries of an ego path, a contender path that includes at least one contention ...