US Patent Issued to Zenseact on July 1 for "Precautionary vehicle path planning" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,242, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zenseact AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Precautionary vehicle path planning" was invented by Zhennan Fei (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Gabriel Rodrigues De Campos (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path-adapting system for precautionary path planning of a host vehicle. The path-adapting system determines conditions of a liquid and/or solid loose material in the air and/or on the road surface in vicinity of the host vehicle, determines movement attributes in relation to the host vehicle of at least a first object in host vehicle surroundings, determines based on the conditions and movement...