US Patent Issued to Kodiak Robotics on March 31 for "Systems and methods for adjusting a driving path using occluded regions" (Colorado, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,742, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for adjusting a driving path using occluded regions" was invented by Collin Otis (Driggs, Idaho) and Philip C. Du Toit (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems to adjust a driving path in a planner-map, including: identifying a driving surface; determining a path on the driving surface; identifying one or more objects relative to the driving surface using one or more sensors; detecting one or more occlusion areas from sensor data from the one or more sensors; trackin...