ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,010, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Controlling autonomous vehicles using safe arrival times" was invented by David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.) and Anton Vorontsov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, sensor data representative of a field of view of at least one sensor of a vehicle in an environment is received from the at least one sensor. Based at least in part on the sensor data, parameters of an object located in the environment are determined. Trajectories of the object are modeled toward target positions based at least in part on the parameters of the object...