ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,809, issued on April 22, was assigned to Guangdong University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).

"Human-machine shared control based on trajectory prediction" was invented by Panshuo Li (Guangzhou, China), Kunsong Lin (Guangzhou, China), Xinduan Yang (Guangzhou, China), Hongyi Li (Guangzhou, China) and Renquan Lu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of intelligent vehicles, and more specifically, to a human-machine shared control method based on trajectory prediction. It comprises: establishing a road-vehicle model based on vehicle-related parameters and then designing a path-track...