US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 8 for "Methods and systems for tracking a mover's lane over time" (Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,183, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for tracking a mover's lane over time" was invented by Greydon Foil (Pittsburgh), G. Peter K. Carr (Allison Park, Pa.), Andrew T. Hartnett (West Hartford, Conn.) and Constantin Savtchenko (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assigning a lane to an object in an environment of an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. The methods include assigning an instantaneous probability to each of a plurality of lanes in the environment based on a current state of the object, generating a transition matrix for ea...