ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,443, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).
"Autonomous vehicle route planning" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kentaro Ichikawa (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Junya Ueno (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for route planning for an autonomous vehicle includes receiving a request to autonomously navigate to a destination. The method also includes identifying a stall factor on a route to the destination prior to departing to the destination, the stall factor delaying a time for arriving at the destination. The method further includes determining whether ...