US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Iterative trajectory replanning for emergency obstacle avoidance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,815, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Iterative trajectory replanning for emergency obstacle avoidance" was invented by James A. Dallas (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Thompson (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Yan Ming Goh (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Avinash Balachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine a first trajectory plan for the vehicle traveling along a first spatial location at a first point in time, the ...