ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,865, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Autonomous driving method and apparatus" was invented by Weize Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Zhiwei Gao (Beijing) and Xinyu Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses autonomous driving methods and apparatuses that may be applied to an intelligent vehicle and an autonomous driving vehicle. An example method includes: obtaining a motion status of an obstacle; determining a location of a towing point and a speed of the towing point based on the motion status of the obstacle, where both the location of the towing poin...