US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Lane change architecture for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,541, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Lane change architecture for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Pengju Jin (San Francisco) and Paul Vernaza (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes generating, using perception data, a dynamic cost profile associated with an object in the environment; obtaining map data describing lanes of the multilane roadway; generating, using the map data, a lane cost profile that includes a plurality of basins respectively associated with the lanes; generating a candidate trajectory for the ...