US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on Jan. 20 for "Efficient trajectory planning for a fleet of vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,966, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Efficient trajectory planning for a fleet of vehicles" was invented by Stefan Kojchev (Molndal, Sweden), Robert Hult (Torslanda, Sweden) and Maximilian Kneissl (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of planning trajectories for vehicles operating in a common environment, wherein movements of each vehicle are controllable by a control signal is provided the method includes for each vehicle, obtaining a predefined vehicle path to be traversed; performing a first computation to obtain a vehicle crossing order at each mutuall...