US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Jan. 13 for "Lane change path generation using piecewise clothoid segments" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,215, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Lane change path generation using piecewise clothoid segments" was invented by Harish Karunakaran (Blacksburg, Va.), Joseph Adkisson (Blacksburg, Va.) and Pradeep Illayaperumal Selvaraju (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and methods for generating proposed driving paths for an automated vehicle performing a lane-change. An autonomy system continually generates reference trajectories. The autonomy system then iteratively and recursively generates clothoid points tracing the reference trajectory, by ...