ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,534, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Fusing obstacle data for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Justin Creaby (Westminster, Colo.), Joshua Rands (Westminster, Colo.) and Riley Kenyon (Westminster, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for avoiding collisions with obstacles by a first vehicle using sensors on an accompanying second vehicle. The second vehicle navigates proximate the first vehicle while aiming an obstacle detection sensor at a path of the first vehicle to detect objects in the path of the first vehicle. The locations of the objects are determin...