US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on June 23 for "Reactive collision avoidance for autonomous vehicles considering physical constraints" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,808, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Reactive collision avoidance for autonomous vehicles considering physical constraints" was invented by Zhimin Xi (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Elnaz Asghari Torkamani (North Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first robot performs navigation to a predetermined first static or dynamic target location. A first set of velocity candidates is generated for the first robot based on the detection of a first set of one or more velocity obstacles. A first new velocity is selected from the first set of velocity candidates. The f...