ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,291, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Vehicle motion planner" was invented by Jiwung Choi (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling a vehicle are described herein. A system may receive a route to navigate from a start position to an end position in an environment. The system may receive map data based on the route and determine a lattice based on the map data. The lattice comprises nodes and connections therebetween. The nodes may represent various states of the vehicle. The connections may represent various feasible transitions between the nodes. The lattice ma...