Cyngn Inc., a developer of AI-powered autonomous driving systems for industrial applications, yesterday said it has added another patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to its portfolio.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company said the new patent, US-11,851,074-B2, will allow it to provide expanded safety features. These include identifying problems arising from autonomous vehicle operations and generating notifications about them.
This patent came shortly after Cyngn procured its eighteenth patent, which protects the company’s novel adaptive traffic rule-based decision-making for autonomous driving.
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Inside Cyngn’s latest patent
Cyngn’s latest patent is for a driving validation system onboard an autonomous vehicle. According to the patent, the system can include sensors, computing subsystems, a drive-by-wire system, and an off-board autonomous system that includes cloud computing subsystems.
The advanced autonomy system described in the patent can be configured to process the first computations relating to the driving operation of the autonomous vehicle. The off-board autonomous cloud computing system then processes the second computations that are similar to the first computations processed by the primary system.
The validation system described in the patent also includes processors and non-transitory, computer-readable storage media configured to store instructions. These instructions cause a system to perform operations, depending on the likelihood of a problem arising during driver operation.
Cyngn is building an extensive patent family
“I am pleased with the remarkable progress and pace of innovation our technology team has achieved as this latest patent expands our total number of U.S. patents to 19,” said Lior Tal, chairman and CEO of Cyngn,in a release.
“Prior to 2023, we were granted three U.S. patents. During the first half of 2023, seven U.S. patents were granted with the second half of last year, securing nine additional patents,” he said. “Currently, we have an additional six U.S. patents and 20 international patents submitted, which we anticipate to be granted in the coming years.”
Cyngn’s patent family centers around its autonomous driving system and covers the following:
- System and methods of large-scale autonomous driving validation
- System and methods of adaptive traffic rule-based decision-making for autonomous driving
- Modular extensible behavioral decision system for autonomous driving
- System and method of computation acceleration for autonomous driving systems
- System and method of same-loop adaptive simulation for autonomous driving
- Granularity-flexible existence-based object detection
- System and methods of adaptive trajectory prediction
- System and methods of adaptive distribution for autonomous driving
- System and method of large-scale automatic grading in autonomous driving using a domain-specific language
- Vehicle sensor systems
- System and methods of adaptive relevancy prediction for autonomous driving
- Obstacle-detection systems
- Multi-channel object matching
- Self-adaptive lidar-camera synchronization system
- Flexible multi-channel fusion perception
- Three-dimensional object detection with ground removal intelligence
- Vehicle localization
- Vehicle sensor systems
- Obstacle-detection systems
In July 2023, Cyngn announced that it has made significant progress in adapting DriveMod to enable autonomous forklifts. That development effort is driven by the company’s previously announced ongoing paid contract with an end user in the building materials industry.
It reported that the engagement has yielded AI-powered autonomous vehicle capabilities on an electric BYD forklift.
