US Patent Issued to Atieva on March 3 for "Multi-policy lane change assistance for vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,215, issued on March 3, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Multi-policy lane change assistance for vehicle" was invented by Pinaki Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Kshitij Tukaram Kumbar (Fremont, Calif.) and Ajeet Ulhas Wankhede (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) comprises: a sensor; a behavior planner that performs multi-policy lane change assistance for a vehicle by evaluating multiple scenarios based on an output of the sensor using a cost-based architecture, the cost-based architecture including a Markov decision process (MDP) with a discounted horizon approach applie...