US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 29 for "Integrated trajectory forecasting, error estimation, and vehicle handling when detecting an observed scenario" (Pennsylvania, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,010, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Integrated trajectory forecasting, error estimation, and vehicle handling when detecting an observed scenario" was invented by John Lepird (Pittsburgh), Pragati Satpute (Canton, Mich.) and Ramadev Burigsay Hukkeri (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for enabling an autonomous vehicle (AV) to react to objects posing a risk to the AV. The system can monitor an object within a vicinity of the AV. A plurality of trajectories predicting paths the object will take can be g...