ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,060, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Motion planning constraints for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Diomidis Katzourakis (Mountain View, Calif.), John P. Alsterda (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rami Y. Hindiyeh (Pacifica, Calif.), Robert Chen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Carson Schultz (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining road patch type data associated with at least one road patch type, deriving, from the road patch type data, a set of road patch type parameters for the at least one road patch type, generating, based on the set of road patch type parameters, a s...