US Patent Issued on July 1 for "Method of controlling switching time to manual driving mode of autonomous vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,281, issued on July 1.

"Method of controlling switching time to manual driving mode of autonomous vehicle" was invented by In Su Kim (Whasung-Si, South Korea) and Myung Ki Yeom (Whasung-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a time switching to a manual driving mode of an autonomous vehicle includes determining whether there is a request for switching to the manual driving mode, when there is the request, comparing at least one value of yaw rate, deceleration, and shifting in an autonomous driving route with at least one value of yaw rate, deceleration, and shifting by a driver's manual manipulation amo...