US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for performing inter-trajectory re-linearization about an evolving reference path for an autonomous vehicle" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,191, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for performing inter-trajectory re-linearization about an evolving reference path for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Scott Julian Varnhagen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alice Kassar (Detroit), Ghassan Atmeh (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.), Neal Seegmiller (Pittsburgh) and Ramadev Burigsay Hukkeri (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for generating a reference path for an autonomous vehicle. The methods comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a referen...