US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 3 for "Conflict detection and avoidance for a robot with right-of-way rule compliant maneuver selection" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,604, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Conflict detection and avoidance for a robot with right-of-way rule compliant maneuver selection" was invented by Martin Kearney-Fischer (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting and avoiding conflict along a current route of a robot. The method includes accessing or determining trajectories of the robot and a nearby moving object forward in time from their respective current positions, and detecting a conflict from a comparison of the trajectories. The method includes selecting a maneuver to avoid the conflict, and outputting an i...