US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 18 for "Automated system including reachability analysis" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,154, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Automated system including reachability analysis" was invented by Michael Jantsch (Princeton, N.J.) and Nareshkumar Nandola (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous system includes a vehicle operable to travel from a first point to a second point, a first actuator operable to adjust a speed of the vehicle, and a second actuator operable to adjust a direction of travel of the vehicle. A controller is operable to send control signals to the first actuator and the second actuator to facilitate the transition of the system from a first state to a second...