US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for generating a longitudinal plan for an autonomous vehicle based on behavior of uncertain road users" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,297, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for generating a longitudinal plan for an autonomous vehicle based on behavior of uncertain road users" was invented by Scott Julian Varnhagen (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Alice Kassar (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing device of an autonomous vehicle and a computer-readable storage medium that includes one or more programming instructions. The system identifies one or more lead objects located in front of the autonomous vehicle, and, for each of the one or more lead objects that are identified, de...