US Patent Issued to Motional on Sept. 23 for "Trajectory generation utilizing diverse trajectories" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,776, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Trajectory generation utilizing diverse trajectories" was invented by Shakiba Yaghoubi (Cambridge, Mass.), Calin Belta (Sherborn, Mass.), Noushin Mehdipour (Allston, Mass.), Anne Collin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Radboud Duintjer Tebbens (Newton Center, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for trajectory generation based on a hierarchical plurality of rules using diverse trajectories, which can include generating a first set of trajectories for a vehicle from a first pose, identifying a first trajectory and a second trajectory from the first set of ...