ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,398, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and INRIA (Le Chesnay, France).

"Method for determining a trajectory of a motor vehicle" was invented by Anh-Lam Do (Antony, France), Thierry Hermitte (Chatou, France), Christian Laugier (Montbonnot Saint-Martin, France), Philippe Martinet (Juan les Pins, France), Luiz-Alberto Serafim-Guardini (Fontenay le Fleury, France) and Anne Spalanzani (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a trajectory of a motor vehicle includes identifying a plurality of objects present in the surroundings of the motor vehicle. For each obj...