US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on June 9 for "Constraint-based speed profile" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,492, issued on June 9, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Constraint-based speed profile" was invented by Derek Lau (San Francisco) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a speed plan for an autonomous vehicle (AV) is disclosed. Planned locations of the AV for future time steps are placed in an occupancy grid. The planned locations are based on a strategic speed plan that is determined without taking world objects into account. Predicted locations of the world objects for at least some of the future time steps are placed in the occupancy grid. Respective buf...