US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Aug. 12 for "Systems and techniques for improved autonomous vehicle comfort and operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,361, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and techniques for improved autonomous vehicle comfort and operation" was invented by Alessio Rocchi (San Lorenzo, Calif.) and Chingiz Tairbekov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques include functionality for improving a comfort, safety, and/or operation of an autonomous vehicle (AV) in an environment including a potential occlusion. An example method can include determining, by a computer of an AV and based on a first trajectory of an occluded hypothetical object, a dissipation boundary associated with the AV. The ...