US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for vehicle spatial path sampling" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,259, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pitsburgh, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for vehicle spatial path sampling" was invented by David McAllister Bradley (Pittsburgh), Chenggang Liu (Pittsburgh) and Daoyuan Jia (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for vehicle spatial path sampling are provided. The method includes obtaining an initial travel path for an autonomous vehicle from a first location to a second location and vehicle configuration data indicative of one or more physical constraints of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining one or more secondary travel paths f...