US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for motion planning with longitudinal constraints" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,189, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Systems and methods for motion planning with longitudinal constraints" was invented by Savio Pereira (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for motion planning for autonomous vehicles. For example, a computing device can generate a hash map including keys associated with time steps and values associated with a nested hash map, the nested hash map including one or more lane coordinates and a list of trajectory constraints associated with the one or more lane coordinates; receive a plurality of candidate traje...