US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on May 19 for "Traffic planning method for a vehicle fleet" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,215, issued on May 19, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Traffic planning method for a vehicle fleet" was invented by Jonas Hellgren (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Stefan Kojchev (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented traffic planning method controls a plurality of vehicles which are movable among multiple shared resources. The method includes receiving a transport mission; generating a root node representing an initial resource occupancy of the vehicles; generating a search tree from the root node, in which each edge represents a motion command each node represents a resour...