ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,117, issued on July 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Guiding vehicles through vehicle maneuvers using machine learning models" was invented by Chenyi Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Artem Provodin (Highlands, N.J.) and Urs Muller (Keyport, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a trigger signal may be received that is indicative of a vehicle maneuver to be performed by a vehicle. A recommended vehicle trajectory for the vehicle maneuver may be determined in response to the trigger signal being received. To determine the recommended vehicle trajectory, sensor data may be received that represents a field...