US Patent Issued to Gatik AI on July 28 for "System and method for safe predictive control of autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,901, issued on July 28, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for safe predictive control of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Vahid Azimi (Mountain View, Calif.), Apeksha Kumavat (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ehsan Sabouni (Mountain View, Calif.), Parsa Taleb (Mountain View, Calif.), Arjun Narang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gautam Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, the system can include: a localization module; an objective generator; a mapping module; and a controller system including a set of Model Predictive Control (MPC) modules, a safety function generator, and a ...