ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,794, issued on April 14, was assigned to Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center.

"Method and unified framework system for full-stack autonomous driving planning" was invented by Hongyang Li (Shanghai), Li Chen (Shanghai), Jiazhi Yang (Shanghai), Yihan Hu (Shanghai), Chonghao Sima (Shanghai), Tianyu Li (Shanghai), Lewei Lu (Shanghai), Yu Liu (Shanghai), Qiang Liu (Shanghai), Junchi Yan (Shanghai), Dahua Lin (Shanghai), Yu Qiao (Shanghai) and Xiaogang Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method and a unified framework system for full-stack autonomous driving planning. The method ...