US Patent Issued to Motional on May 13 for "Ride comfort improvement in different traffic scenarios for autonomous vehicle" (Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,850, issued on May 13, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Ride comfort improvement in different traffic scenarios for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Felice Ling (Cambridge, Mass.), Eliseo Miranda (Boston), Amitai Bin-Nun (Silver Spring, Md.), Helen Argiroff-Flood (Chicago) and Cristhian Guillermo Lizarazo Jimenez (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enclosed are embodiments of motion control operations in various traffic scenarios in consideration of the kinematic factor for trajectory planning. In some embodiments, a method includes: determining a danger rating for at least one object identified in an environment, whe...