ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,426, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for online iterative re-planning" was invented by Thomas J. Power (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for online iterative re-planning are provided herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first time step, a first grasp and an initial object pose of an agent. The method also includes generating a first set of candidate object trajectories based on the first grasp and the initial object pose. Candidate object trajectories of the first set of candidat...