US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on Sept. 23 for "Methods and system for predicting trajectories of uncertain road users by semantic segmentation of drivable area boundaries" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,861, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Methods and system for predicting trajectories of uncertain road users by semantic segmentation of drivable area boundaries" was invented by Gregory Boyd Nichols (Franklin Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling navigation of an autonomous vehicle for traversing a drivable area are disclosed. The methods include receiving information relating to a drivable area that includes a plurality of polygons, identifying a plurality of logical edges that form a boundary of the drivable area, sequentially an...