US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Jan. 20 for "Perception and understanding of vulnerable road users" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,512, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Perception and understanding of vulnerable road users" was invented by Shuai Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Navaneeth Bodla (Redwood City, Calif.), Ankit Raj (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ruxiao Bao (San Jose, Calif.), Amirreza Shaban (Bellevue, Wash.), Gweltaz Lever (San Francisco) and Sachithra Hemachandra (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles utilize perception and understanding of road users and road objects to predict behaviors of the road users and road objects, and to plan a trajectory for the vehicle. Understanding subtypes...