US Patent Issued to NXP USA on May 26 for "Cross-channel safety analysis of redundant MPC-based vehicle controllers in autonomous systems" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,106, issued on May 26, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Cross-channel safety analysis of redundant MPC-based vehicle controllers in autonomous systems" was invented by Andrei Sergeevich Terechko (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Yuting Fu (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Jochen Seemann (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion plan safety analysis is performed by processing vehicle sensor signals to generate a motion plan which includes a reference trajectory value, by processing the reference trajectory value at a first MPC to generate a first current setpoint and a first plurality of future setpoints, by proces...