US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 22 for "System and method for trajectory planning" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,798, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for trajectory planning" was invented by Daniel Aguilar Marsillach (Detroit) and Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for trajectory planning selects a trajectory from a plurality of candidate trajectories to direct an autonomous vehicle. The system includes a controller in communication with a global positioning system (GPS) and at least one sensor. The GPS receives a plurality of global scene information. The at least one sensor collects local scene information. The contr...