US Patent Issued to Baidu USA on July 1 for "Hierarchical planning for autonomous machinery on various tasks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,024, issued on July 1, was assigned to Baidu USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hierarchical planning for autonomous machinery on various tasks" was invented by Liyang Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhixian Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Liangjun Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous excavator has developed rapidly in recent years because of a shortage of labor and hazardous working environments for operating excavators. Presented herein are embodiments of a novel hierarchical planning system for autonomous machines, such as excavators. In one or more embodiments, the overall planning system comprises a high-level tas...