ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,393, issued on Aug. 11, 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: "Path planning may be performed under non-holonomic constraints based at least on discretizing and selectively analyzing a solution space using a graph that includes vertices corresponding to machine configurations in a configuration space, along with associated maneuver types used by the machine to traverse these configurations. The graph may include transition edges associating costs with machine transitions between maneuver types and maneuvers. One or more of the ...