ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,207, issued on April 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Motion planning" was invented by David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Costs associated with configurations corresponding to a maneuver type(s) may be stored in a transition state(s) volume. The same memory volume may be used for storing cost values that correspond different maneuver types and different vertices in a graph of a configuration space. In at least one embodiment, to share a memory volume between maneuver types, the system may determine a cost for a machine to reach a configuration of a configuration space using various d...