ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,690, issued on June 17, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for operating an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Scott Douglas Foster (San Diego), Neil M. Overmon (Redwood City, Calif.), Erik Orlando Portillo (Sterling, Va.), Zhujia Shi (San Diego) and Joyce Tam (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statues for performing safe driving operation. An example method for operating the AV includes determining a trajectory related information of a vehicle operating on a roadway on which the AV i...