ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,021, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Fault tolerant motion planner" was invented by Navid Dadkhah Tehrani (Providence, R.I.) and Christopher A. Thornberg (Newtown, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to apparatuses, systems, and methods for handling faults on vehicles. One or more processors in a vehicle may receive, from a control unit in response to a detection of a fault in the vehicle, an indication of a degradation in a performance constraint of the vehicle. The processors may determine, responsive to the degradation in the performance constraint, that the vehic...