US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 21 for "Techniques for generating map reference priors for an autonomous vehicle planning stack" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,195, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Techniques for generating map reference priors for an autonomous vehicle planning stack" was invented by Jonathon Gillespie (San Francisco), Nishant Sharma (Hayward, Calif.), Joseph Sadusk (San Francisco) and Bradley Perry (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a reference prior for a portion of a route to a planning stack of a vehicle. The method includes accessing manual driving data associated with the route portion, the manual driving data stored in a database; averaging the accessed manual driving data to determine ...