US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for path planning with latent state inference and graphical relationships" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,329, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for path planning with latent state inference and graphical relationships" was invented by Jiachen Li (Mountain View, Calif.), David F. Isele (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kikuo Fujimura (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaobai Ma (Stanford, Calif.) and Mykel J. Kochenderfer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for path planning with latent state inference and spatial-temporal relationships are provided. A system includes an inference module, a pol...