US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Oct. 21 for "Perception and understanding of vehicles" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,009, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Perception and understanding of vehicles" was invented by Navaneeth Bodla (Redwood City, Calif.), Sachithra Hemachandra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gia Tri Nguyen (Kirkland, Wash.), Shuai Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ajaya Hanasoge Shankaranarayana Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiao Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles utilize perception and understanding of road users to predict behaviors of the road users, and to plan a trajectory for the vehicle. Understanding subtypes and attributes of vehicles may help autonomous vehicl...