ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,888, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Motion policy planner for navigation" was invented by Yuxiao Chen (Newark, Calif.), Sander Tonkens (La Jolla, Calif.), Edward Schmerling (Seattle) and Marco Pavone (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, policy prediction-based motion planner systems and methods for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications are provided. A scenario tree structure may be generated that represents potential behaviors of one or more peripheral agents based on perception data of a scene within which an ego vehicle operates. A joint M...