US Patent Issued to Motional on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for planning and updating a vehicle's trajectory" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,184, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Systems and methods for planning and updating a vehicle's trajectory" was invented by Olivia Leitermann (Cambridge, Mass.) and Eryk Brian Nice (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for generating a driving trajectory for a vehicle while the vehicle is blocked (e.g., the sensor of the vehicle have detected an object results in the vehicle being unable to move) by an object (e.g., another vehicle, bicycle, or a pedestrian) and executing the driving trajectory when the vehicle becomes unblocked. In addition, techniques are provided for upda...