Patents by Inventor Michael William Bode

Michael William Bode 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).

  • Publication number: 20250214618
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an example method that includes: (a) obtaining context data descriptive of an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle, the context data based on map data and perception data; (b) generating, by a proposer and based on the context data: (i) a plurality of candidate trajectories, and (ii) a plurality of actor forecasts for a plurality of actors in the environment; (c) generating, by a ranker and based on the context data, the plurality of candidate trajectories, and the plurality of actor forecasts, a ranking of the plurality of candidate trajectories; and (d) controlling a motion of the autonomous vehicle based on a candidate trajectory selected based on the ranking of the plurality of candidate trajectories, wherein the proposer comprises a first machine-learned model and the ranker comprises a second machine-learned model, and wherein the first machine-learned model and the second machine-learned model use a common backbone architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: J. Andrew Bagnell, Michael William Bode, Micol Marchetti-Bowick, Sanjiban Choudry, Kalin Gochev, Shervin Javdani, Pengju Jin, Sumit Kumar, Yuhang Ma, Venkatraman Narayanan, Arun Venkatraman, Carl Wellington