US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Path-conditioned motion forecasting for vehicle motion planning" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,868, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Path-conditioned motion forecasting for vehicle motion planning" was invented by Siddhesh Shyam Khandelwal (Vancouver, Canada), William Junbo Qi (Pittsburgh), Jagjeet Singh (Pittsburgh), Andrew T. Hartnett (West Hartford, Conn.) and Deva Ramanan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining trajectories of an actor in an environment in which a vehicle is operating are provided. The method includes detecting an actor that may move within a scene in the environment by an object detection system of a vehicle in the envi...