US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on April 29 for "Fast path planning for dynamic avoidance in partially known environments" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,225, issued on April 29, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Manassas, Va.).

"Fast path planning for dynamic avoidance in partially known environments" was invented by Craig John Bonnoit (Vienna, Va.) and Jeffery Saunders (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for traversing in an environment that includes at least one obstacle, by a mobile autonomous system, to a destination in the environment, are presented. The techniques can include generating, prior to the mobile autonomous system commencing activity in the environment, a graph including a plurality of vertices representi...