US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 19 for "Vehicle operation around obstacles" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,153, issued on May 19, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle operation around obstacles" was invented by Erol Dogan Sumer (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ehsan Arabi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Yousaf Rahman (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Abhishek Sharma (Lasalle/Ontario, Canada), Alex Maurice Miller (Canton, Mich.) and Michael Hafner (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to formulate a plurality of constraints, determine a final input modification to a nominal input that minimizes a cost function subjec...