US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on Feb. 17 for "Iterative feedback motion planning" (Michigan, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,260, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Iterative feedback motion planning" was invented by Zhichao Liu (Novi, Mich.) and Bin Zhang (Irmo, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Establishing a feedback connection between a motion planner and a motion controller in an autonomous driving system wherein feedback is iteratively updated and able to improve motion controller performance."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2020, under Application No. 16/804,094.

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