US Patent Issued to Motional on Oct. 21 for "Predicting and controlling object crossings on vehicle routes" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,006, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Predicting and controlling object crossings on vehicle routes" was invented by Henggang Cui (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems and computer program products for predicting vehicle crossing and yielding, which can include receiving sensor information indicating an object surrounding a vehicle. Some methods also include determining a future position of the vehicle based on a first trajectory of the vehicle, determining a future position of the object based on a second trajectory of the object, and determining a vehicle contro...