ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,152, issued on July 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Emergency braking for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Shiying Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jens-Steffen Ralf Gutmann (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for generation of trajectories for a vehicle driving in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, information identifying a plurality of objects in the vehicle's environment and a confidence value for each of the objects is received. A set of constraints may be generated. That one or more processors are unable to solve for a trajectory given the set of constr...