US Patent Issued to Lit Motors on May 5 for "Method and apparatus for trajectory shape generation for autonomous vehicles" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,430, issued on May 5, was assigned to Lit Motors Corp. (Portland, Ore.).

"Method and apparatus for trajectory shape generation for autonomous vehicles" was invented by David Arthur Bailey (Glendale, Ariz.) and Daniel Kee Young Kim (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a direction and speed of travel of an autonomous vehicle or driver assisted autonomous vehicle (AV). A GPS and map module receive a start location and a destination location for the AV and generate a plan to move the AV from the start location to the destination location. A trajectory profile generator module receives the plan and calc...