US Patent Issued to Motional on July 22 for "Navigating multi-way stop intersections with an autonomous vehicle" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,341, issued on July 22, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Navigating multi-way stop intersections with an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Mochan Shrestha (Blawnox, Pa.), Shu-Kai Lin (Pittsburgh), Baxter Smith (Gibsonia, Pa.), Xiaojun Sun (Pittsburgh) and Wenda Xu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described in this specification is directed to a system and techniques for operating an autonomous vehicle (AV) at a multi-way stop intersection. After detecting the AV is at a primary stopline of the multi-way stop intersection, a planned travel path though the multi-way stop intersection is obtained...