US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 8 for "Safety procedure analysis for obstacle avoidance in autonomous vehicles" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,213, issued on July 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Safety procedure analysis for obstacle avoidance in autonomous vehicles" was invented by David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.), Hon-Leung Lee (Bellevue, Wash.), Julia Ng (San Jose, Calif.) and Yizhou Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a current claimed set of points representative of a volume in an environment occupied by a vehicle at a time may be determined. A vehicle-occupied trajectory and at least one object-occupied trajectory may be generated at the time. An intersection between the vehicle-occupied trajectory and an ...