US Patent Issued to Kodiak Robotics on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for path planning of autonomous vehicles" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,917, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for path planning of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Derek J. Phillips (Mountain View, Calif.), Collin C. Otis (Driggs, Idaho), Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jackson P. Rusch (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure presents systems and methods for path planning in autonomous vehicles. The method involves a planner receiving perception data from a perception module, which includes tracking or predicted object data about obstacles in the environment of an autonomous vehicle. The tracki...