ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,681, issued on June 17, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Trajectory planning method and apparatus" was invented by Shaoyu Yang (Beijing), Weize Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Xinyu Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory planning method for an autonomous vehicle includes a lateral displacement planner that plans a preliminary traveling trajectory for an autonomous driving vehicle based on perceptual data, positioning data, and map information, where the preliminary traveling trajectory includes N road points, and each road point includes coordinate information of th...