ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,936, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Trajectory planning system for a vehicle and vehicle" was invented by Michael Fleps-Dezasse (Markdorf, Germany), Julian King (Rankwell, Austria), Stephan Pollmeyer (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Lothar Kiltz (Ravensburg, Germany) and Felix Mesmer (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory planning system for a vehicle includes a sensor system for measuring an actual curvature on the basis of a respective current yaw rate, a memory containing a target trajectory with target curvatures, wherein the trajectory planning system dete...