ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,001, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Autonomous vehicle motion planning" was invented by J. Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh), Michael William Bode (Pittsburgh), Micol Marchetti-Bowick (Pittsburgh), Sanjiban Choudry (Ithaca, N.Y.), Pengju Jin (San Francisco), Sumit Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yuhang Ma (Pittsburgh), Venkatraman Narayanan (Mountain View, Calif.), Arun Venkatraman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Carl Wellington (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an example method that includes: (a) obtaining context data descriptive of an environment surrounding an a...