US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Nov. 25 for "Using neural networks to model restricted traffic zones for autonomous vehicle navigation" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,467, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Using neural networks to model restricted traffic zones for autonomous vehicle navigation" was invented by Jingdan Zhang (Pittsburgh), Changkai Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.), Elad Plaut (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shuqin Xie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The navigation of an AV in an environment may be planned based on a model of a restricted traffic zone in the environment. Information of the environment (e.g., a vector map, information of one or more objects, a temporal sequence of semantic grids, a query grid, etc.) may be input into a ...