US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Oct. 21 for "Imitation learning for trajectory planning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,007, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Imitation learning for trajectory planning" was invented by Kyle Hollins Wray (Fremont, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trajectory planning include identifying state data based on sensor data from sensors of a vehicle. The state data are input to a machine-learning model to obtain parameters of a trajectory planner. The parameters are input to the trajectory planner to obtain a short term speed plan. The vehicle is autonomously controlled according to at least a portion of the short term speed pl...