US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle path planning" (Alabama, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,929, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle path planning" was invented by Joshua D. Kalin (Huntsville, Ala.), Nick S. Evans (Lynwood, Wash.), Taylor S. Loper (Huntsville, Ala.) and Joseph E. Fagerburg (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle path planning are described herein. An example vehicle includes an image sensor to obtain an image of a scene of an area surrounding the vehicle. The vehicle also includes navigation system circuitry to: analyze the image and generate a semantically segmented image that identi...