US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 29 for "Method and system for autonomous vehicle control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,942, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method and system for autonomous vehicle control" was invented by Matthew Johnson-Roberson (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ram Vasudevan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for autonomous vehicle control preferably includes sampling measurements, determining refined sensor poses based on the measurements, determining an updated vehicle pose based on the measurements and operation matrix, optionally determining evaluation sensor poses based on the refined sensor poses, optionally updating the operation matrix(es) bas...