Patents by Inventor Bryce Willey

Bryce Willey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11634126
    Abstract: A motion planner performs motion planning with collision assessment, using a motion planning lattice that represents configuration states of a primary agent (e.g., autonomous vehicle) as nodes and transitions between states as edges. The system may assign cost values to edges, the cost values representing probability or likelihood of collision for the corresponding transition. The cost values may additionally or alternatively represent a severity of collision, for example generated via a parametric function with two or more parameters and one or more weights. A primary agent and/or dynamic obstacles may be represented as respective oriented bounding boxes. Some obstacles (e.g., road markings, edge of road) may be represented as curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: REALTIME ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: William Floyd-Jones, Bryce Willey, George Konidaris, Xianchao Long
  • Publication number: 20200377085
    Abstract: A motion planner performs motion planning with collision assessment, using a motion planning lattice that represents configuration states of a primary agent (e.g., autonomous vehicle) as nodes and transitions between states as edges. The system may assign cost values to edges, the cost values representing probability or likelihood of collision for the corresponding transition. The cost values may additionally or alternatively represent a severity of collision, for example generated via a parametric function with two or more parameters and one or more weights. A primary agent and/or dynamic obstacles may be represented as respective oriented bounding boxes. Some obstacles (e.g., road markings, edge of road) may be represented as curves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: William Floyd-Jones, Bryce Willey, George Konidaris, Xianchao Long