ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,245, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle operation around obstacles" was invented by Mohit Srinivasan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Aditya Ganesha (Lexington, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a threat number based on sensor data indicating an obstacle, the threat number representing a risk of an impact between a vehicle and the obstacle; formulate a control barrier function based on sensor data indicating the obstacle; determine a control input based on an express...