US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Method and device for estimating a region of space occupied by a moving vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,434, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and device for estimating a region of space occupied by a moving vehicle" was invented by Rikard Wadman (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Oliver Sundell (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a region of space occupied by a vehicle which moves along a path includes: obtaining a nominal path {X(s):0less than equal tosless than equal tos0}; recording a plurality of trajectories in the vehicle's state space {x(s;q):0less than equal tosless than equal tos0} while the vehicle is maneuvered along the nominal path i...