US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 30 for "Multi-profile quadratic programming (MPQP) for optimal gap selection and speed planning of autonomous driving" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,025, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Multi-profile quadratic programming (MPQP) for optimal gap selection and speed planning of autonomous driving" was invented by Alexandre Miranda Anon (Premia de Dalt, Spain), Sangjae Bae (San Jose, Calif.), David Isele (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manish Saroya (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kikuo Fujimura (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating operable driving areas for an autonomous driving vehicle based on a path trajectory of the autonomous driving vehicle is provided. The method may form a space time (ST) graph indicating a distance of...