ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,507, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Systems and methods for vision-language planning (VLP) foundation models for autonomous driving" was invented by Chenbin Pan (Syracuse, N.Y.), Burhaneddin Yaman (San Jose, Calif.), Tommaso Nesti (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhirup Mallik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuliang Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for training an autonomous driving system using a vision-language planning (VLP) model. Image data is obtained from a vehicle-mounted camera, encompassing details about agents situated within the exte...