ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,987, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Cost map fusion for lane selection" was invented by Adam Shoemaker (Christiansburg, Va.), John Blankenhorn (Christiansburg, Va.), Garrett Madsen (Austin, Texas), Joshua Petrin (Christiansburg, Va.), Ajay Tulsyan (Austin, Texas), Paul Brown (Roanoke, Va.), Savio Pereira (Austin, Texas), William Davis (Austin, Texas), Daniel Fernandez (Roanoke, Va.) and Yexuan Hao (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating lane selection cost maps to control autonomous vehicles are disclosed. An autonomous vehicle system can receive a...