ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,413, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Autonomous Solutions Inc. (Mendon, Utah).
"Auto-tunable path controller with dynamic avoidance capability" was invented by Nate Bunderson (Mendon, Utah) and Jeff Ferrin (Mendon, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path control systems and methods are disclosed that can aide in keeping an autonomous vehicle on a path. A current estimate of the autonomous vehicle's first position (x, y), heading, and velocity as well as a path of interest (e.g., breadcrumbs, line-arcs, or clothoid segments each containing velocity information) can be used to output a command velocity, command curvature, and/or ...