US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Augmenting motion planning of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles based on occluded regions" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,595, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Augmenting motion planning of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles based on occluded regions" was invented by Stefano Bonasera (Royal Oak, Mich.), Daniel Aguilar Marsillach (Chicagom, Ill.) and Rouhollah Sayed Jafari (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a vehicle includes sensors that sense surroundings of the vehicle. A perception module generates a map of the surroundings of the vehicle. The map comprises objects around the vehicle. An occlusion computing module computes occluded regions in the map. The occluded regions ar...