ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,712, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cloud based multi vehicle path planner" was invented by Julia Kabalar (Munich), Dorel Mircea Coman (Munich), Nirnai Ach (Munich), Mireille Lucette Laure Gregoire (Stuttgart, Germany), Camille Maurice (Munich), Kiran Bangalore Ravi (Paris) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to perception data collection and curation. In one aspect, a network entity receives, from a first set of user equipments (UEs), a first set of perception data collected by the first set of UEs. The network entity configures, f...