ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,992, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Online occlusion prediction for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Marc Unzueta (Munich), Michael Meyer (Munich), Sven Moller (Lubbecke, Germany) and Filippo Grazioli (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles (AVs) utilize perception and understanding of objects on the road to predict behaviors of the objects, and to plan a trajectory for the vehicle. In some scenarios, an AV may benefit from having information about an object that is not within a perceivable area of the sensors of the AV. Another AV in the area that has t...