ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,351, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Motion planning" was invented by Mihai Dobre (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Subramanian Ramamoorthy (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of planning ego actions for a mobile robot in the presence of at least one agent, comprising: searching for an optimal ego action in multiple search steps, each comprising: selecting an ego action from a set of possible ego actions, selecting an agent behaviour from a set of possible agent behaviours, running a simulation based on the selected ego action and agent behav...