ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,406, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Method for planning the behavior of a vehicle" was invented by Chi Zhang (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Florian Steinhauser (Ravensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning a behavior of a vehicle with respect to one or more occluded area(s) along a navigation path of the vehicle, wherein the method comprises an occluded area identification step, during which the occluded area(s) is/are identified, and a phantom object generation step, during which at least one phantom object is generated for at least one of the occlude...