US Patent Issued to AMPERE, NISSAN MOTOR on Jan. 13 for "Device for selecting the driving mode of an autonomous motor vehicle" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,251, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Device for selecting the driving mode of an autonomous motor vehicle" was invented by Bertrand Reyss (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for selecting the driving mode of an autonomous motor vehicle includes an electrical assembly in which a switch is associated in series with a first resistor. A safety resistor is connected in parallel with the switch and with the associated first resistor. The electrical assembly is connected firstly to a DC voltage source of a computer and secon...