US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 22 for "Validation of trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,797, issued on April 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Validation of trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Oskar Sandberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Sparks (San Francisco), Shahab Kaynama (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Mulligan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide controlling an autonomous vehicle. For example, a first trajectory generated by a first planning system may be received. A portion of the first trajectory may be input into a second planning system. A second trajectory generated by the second planning system based on the portion of...