US Patent Issued to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER on June 17 for "Route planning system and method of self-driving vehicle" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,692, issued on June 17, was assigned to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER (Lugang, Taiwan).

"Route planning system and method of self-driving vehicle" was invented by Ji-Fan Yang (Lugang, Taiwan), Tsung-Ming Hsu (Lugang, Taiwan) and Shou-Ti Cheng (Lugang, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-driving vehicle route planning system detects and transforms environment information of a host vehicle into an aerial view including the coordinate information of coordinate points to recognize and mark traffic lane boundaries, traffic lanes, and other vehicles therein, calculates central points of the traffic lanes, and then, calculat...