US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Nov. 18 for "Unified interface between a control system and planners of an autonomous vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,703, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Unified interface between a control system and planners of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Spyros Maniatopoulos (San Francisco), Shad Laws (Redwood City, Calif.), Nitin Kapania (San Francisco), Rushil Goradia (San Francisco) and Andrew Robinson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles may have different specialized primary planners in the vehicle planning stack that each can generate a plan for the vehicle control stack. For instance, one primary planner may be used for the vehicle to drive forward, and another primary pla...