ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,357, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Processing trajectories" was invented by Brian Michael Filarsky (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of processing trajectories, such as for autonomous vehicles, are provided. A method may comprise receiving a trajectory and identifying a first mode or a second mode as a control mode for controlling the vehicle. The first mode comprises determining a first control value based at least in part on a time and controlling the vehicle based at least in part on the first control value. The second mode comprises determining a second control value for ...