ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,918, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Trajectory planning system calculating a laterally offset trajectory for a vehicle" was invented by Harsh Ketan Patel (New Hudson, Mich.), Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.) and Tetyana V. Mamchuk (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory planning system that calculates a laterally offset trajectory based on a maximum allowable in-lane lateral offset with respect to the center of a host lane of a vehicle includes one or more controllers including one or more processors that execute instructions to monitor perception data collected by a...