ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,538, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SEEGRID Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Self-driving vehicle path adaptation system and method" was invented by Benjamin George Schmidt (Wexford, Pa.) and Ryan Young (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a path adaptation system and method for a self-driving vehicle, and a self-driving vehicle including path adaptation technology. The method includes providing a vehicle navigation path through an environment; determining a location of the vehicle relative to the path; generating one or more polygons representing a shape of the vehicle projected from the vehicle location in a vehicle travel ...