US Patent Issued to CARIAD, VOLKSWAGEN on Aug. 18 for "Motion planning of an autonomous vehicle, motion planning system and vehicle with a motion planning system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,295, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany) and VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Motion planning of an autonomous vehicle, motion planning system and vehicle with a motion planning system" was invented by Anna Rehr (Freising, Germany) and Simon Grossjohann (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion planning system and method for motion planning of an autonomous vehicle are provided, wherein a motion planning system determines a plurality of configuration samples through a configuration space, wherein the configuration samples are determined in predefined sampling steps, wherein a sequen...