US Patent Issued to Trimble on June 16 for "Autonomous vehicle boundary intersection detection and avoidance" (Georgia, Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,783, issued on June 16, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Autonomous vehicle boundary intersection detection and avoidance" was invented by Shantnu Kakkar (Alpharetta, Ga.), Juan Carlos Santamaria (Alpharetta, Ga.), Eduardo Wiputra (Broomfield, Colo.), Joshua Rands (Superior, Colo.), Brandon Sights (San Marcos, Calif.) and Caroline Starbird (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for autonomous vehicle boundary intersection detection and avoidance are described. In an example, a geofence boundary is received at a display coupled to a control module of a vehicle. A 2D footprint is generated usin...