ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,354, issued on July 14, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Safety filter with preview data to improve the safety of steer commands" was invented by Siva Bhargav Ravella (San Jose, Calif.) and Muhammad Waqas (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to perform operations comprising obtaining, by a computing system, a lane-keeping safe set associated with constraints on lateral movement of a vehicle traveling on a road, generating, by the computing system, a lane-keeping safe set with preview based on the lane-keeping safe set and preview dat...