US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 1 for "Planner system recovery for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,406, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Planner system recovery for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Ioan-Alexandru Sucan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode using trajectories. For instance, a trajectory may be received by one or more first computing devices from one or more second computing devices. While the first computing devices are controlling the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode based on the trajectory, an error may be generated by second computing devices. Whether the error i...