US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Annotated virtual track to inform autonomous vehicle control" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,706, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Annotated virtual track to inform autonomous vehicle control" was invented by Charles Edward Cartwright (Seattle), Brandon William Porter (Yarrow Point, Wash.), Gur Kimchi (Bellevue, Wash.) and Darren Ernest Canavor (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recent location and control information received from "lead" vehicles that traveled over a segment of land, sea, or air is captured to inform, via aggregated data, subsequent "trailing" vehicles that travel over that same segment of land, sea, or air. The aggregated data may provide the trailing ve...