US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 18 for "Motion planning" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,302, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Motion planning" was invented by Yuxiao Chen (Newark, Calif.), Sushant Veer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Karkus (Zurich) and Marco Pavone (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a gradient-based motion planner evaluates a cost function corresponding to routes for a machine and an obstacle to jointly update the routes. The cost function may include terms to penalize deviation from an initial route predicted for the obstacle and acceleration or jerk for the obstacle. The routes for the machine and the obstacle that are updated may b...