US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Aug. 19 for "Method for enumerating homotopies for maneuvers using a hierarchy of tolerance relations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,279, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Method for enumerating homotopies for maneuvers using a hierarchy of tolerance relations" was invented by Daniele Molinari (Redwood City, Calif.) and Constantin Hubmann (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of motion planning and maneuvering of an ego vehicle is described. The method includes determining a plurality of vehicle trajectories during motion planning of the ego vehicle. The method also includes enumerating the plurality of vehicle trajectories associated with a plurality of vehicle maneuvers into a qualitativ...