ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,283, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Architecture for variable motion control envelope" was invented by Diomidis Katzourakis (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Barton-Sweeney (Oakland, Calif.), Rami Hindiyeh (Pacifica, Calif.), Peter Greene (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vadim Butakov (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology employs a variable motion control envelope that enables an on-board computing system of a self-driving vehicle to estimate future vehicle driving behavior along an upcoming path, in order to maintain a desired amount of control during autonomous driving. Factors inclu...