ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,880, issued on March 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Context aware optimization of planner for autonomous driving" was invented by Abhirup Mallik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tommaso Nesti (Mountain View, Calif.), Burhaneddin Yaman (San Jose, Calif.), Alessandro Allievi (Durham, N.C.) and Jarrett Holtz (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for optimizing a planning model for autonomous driving. Image data is generated from a vehicle camera. A perception model detects agents in the environment based on the image data. A planner model is executed to generate a predicted trajectory of the v...