US Patent Issued to AMPERE on July 14 for "Path calculation module, and associated path control device and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,371, issued on July 14, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Path calculation module, and associated path control device and method" was invented by Marouane Benaziz (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Maud Peyret (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module includes a device for transmitting a first setpoint state vector as the input to a closed control loop of a path control device such that the vehicle travelling in a first lane moves to a second lane, the path being modelled by a first Bezier curve, and a device for modelling, using a second Bezier curve, a path for returning the vehicle to the middle...