ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,531, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Device and method for generating trajectory, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program therefor" was invented by Shinichi Shiraishi (Saitama, Japan) and Hidetaka Fuse (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for generating a trajectory outputs, from first data generated by a first sensor, first object information indicating the position of an object in an area around the vehicle at generation of the first data and first predictive object information indicating a predicted position of an object in the area around the...