ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,824, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Modification of the planned path of an autonomous vehicle to converge to the actual position" was invented by Rushil Goradia (San Francisco), Dogan Gidon (Seattle), Martin Sehr (Kensington, Calif.) and Pradeep Bhatta (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for adjusting the planned path of an autonomous vehicle to converge with the actual path. An example method can include determining a first pose error associated with a first pose component from one or more pose components, wherein the first pose error is bas...