ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,262, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Motion tracking for autonomous vehicle driving" was invented by Siva Bhargav Ravella (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Qiqiang Hou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to controlling a vehicle trajectory of an autonomous vehicle. A first vehicle traveling along a road acquires, from a first sensor of the first vehicle, first data of one or more first objects in a vicinity of the first vehicle. The first vehicle receives, from a computer system associated with a fixed installation, a first travel traj...