US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on Oct. 20 for "Conflict detection and avoidance for a robot with right-of-way rule compliant maneuver selection" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,525, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Manassas, Va.).

"Conflict detection and avoidance for a robot with right-of-way rule compliant maneuver selection" was invented by Martin Kearney-Fischer (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting and avoiding conflict along a current route of a robot. The method includes accessing or determining trajectories of the robot and a nearby moving object forward in time from their respective current positions, and detecting a conflict from a comparison of the trajectories. The method includes selecting a maneu...