US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 18 for "Roadmodel manifold for 2D trajectory planner" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,203, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Roadmodel manifold for 2D trajectory planner" was invented by Maximilian Doemling (Landshut, Germany), Qianshan Li (Shanghai) and Wenxin Tian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a pre-defined roadmodel 2-dimensional (2D) manifold in 6D space, wherein the roadmodel 2D manifold in 6D space is pre-defined by transforming objects in a roadmodel from 3D space into 6D space, obtaining a current position of the vehicle and a target position of the vehicle on the horizontal plane; obtaining a piece of the roadmodel 2D manifold cove...