US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for planning a path for a mobile object" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,015, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for planning a path for a mobile object" was invented by Marc Patrick Zapf (Shanghai), William Wang (Shanghai), Zhuoqi Zeng (Shanghai) and Hao Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning a path for a mobile object is disclosed. The method includes: generating a plurality of costmap layers based at least on locations of the obstacles in a navigation area, current locations and/or current planned paths of other mobile objects in the navigation area, and historical locations of other mobile objects in the navigati...