US Patent Issued to TORC Robotics on Nov. 3 for "Generating and selecting candidate trajectories" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,194, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TORC Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Generating and selecting candidate trajectories" was invented by Rikki Valverde (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for operating a vehicle. In an embodiment, a system can identify a maximum distance bound based on one or more objects around a vehicle; for each of a plurality of candidate trajectories for the vehicle, determine a velocity from the maximum distance bound at an ending time of the candidate trajectory; determine an available distance for the candidate trajectory as a function of the determin...