US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for lane changes using a multi-corridor representation of local route regions" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,766, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for lane changes using a multi-corridor representation of local route regions" was invented by Neal Seegmiller (Pittsburgh), Christopher Cunningham (Pittsburgh), Ramadev Burigsay Hukkeri (Pittsburgh), Thomas Petroff (Gibsonia, Pa.) and Albert Costa (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for maneuvering an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. The methods include generating a multi-corridor representation corresponding to a local region around the autonomous vehicle while travelling on a route, and using the m...