ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,351, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Automated driving obstacle avoidance along a path" was invented by Joseph Burtch (Lake Orion, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of autonomously defining a vehicle path according to a disclosed exemplary embodiment includes, among other possible things, detecting an object that is disposed within a predetermined path with a sensor system within a vehicle, defining an avoidance clearance around the detected object with a vehicle control system within the vehicle, defining a look-ahead clearance centered on a portion of the veh...