US Patent Issued to CreateAI on April 7 for "Detecting an unknown object by a lead autonomous vehicle (AV) and updating routing plans for following AVs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,963, issued on April 7, was assigned to CreateAI Inc. (San Diego).

"Detecting an unknown object by a lead autonomous vehicle (AV) and updating routing plans for following AVs" was invented by Robert Patrick Brown (San Diego), Scott Douglas Foster (San Diego) and Joyce Tam (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a sensor configured to observe a field of view in front of the lead AV. Following AVs are on the same road behind the lead AV. A processor of the lead AV is configured to detect an unknown object within the field of view by comparing sensor data received from the sensor and a ...