US Patent Issued to VOLVO CAR on May 13 for "Environment-aware path planning for a self-driving vehicle using dynamic step-size search" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,848, issued on May 13, was assigned to VOLVO CAR Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Environment-aware path planning for a self-driving vehicle using dynamic step-size search" was invented by Xinkai Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sihao Ding (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of planning a path for an autonomous vehicle from the vehicle's initial configuration to the goal configuration which is collision-free, kinematically-feasible, and near-minimal in length. The vehicle is equipped with a plurality of perception sensors such as lidar, camera, etc., and is configured to operate in an autonomous mode. An on...