US Patent Issued to AMPERE on Aug. 19 for "Method for controlling a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous driving means" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,247, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Method for controlling a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous driving means" was invented by Bruno Durand (Paris), Guillermo Pita-Gil (Versailles, France) and Salim Zair (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous driving structure, sensors, fusion circuitry, and a road navigation assistance device. The method includes: determining a first value when the estimated trajectory of the vehicle intersects or approaches the central line of a traffic lane, determining a second value when the c...