ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,278, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle using a redundant actuator control engine system" was invented by Alistair Dobke (Mountain View, Calif.), Albert Moser (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems and methods for controlling a vehicle in response to an abnormal condition. The method may include generating, by a main computing system, a nominal motion plan and a fallback motion plan for each predetermined interval from a location of the vehicle. The met...