US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on July 29 for "Data-driven warm start selection for optimization-based trajectory planning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,056, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Data-driven warm start selection for optimization-based trajectory planning" was invented by Miroslav Baric (San Jose, Calif.), Jin Ge (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Timothee Cazenave (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle, may include: computing features for each of the plurality of candidate trajectories; computing scores for the features of the candidate trajectories, wherein the scores are based on parameter values associated with their corresponding final traje...