US Patent Issued to APOLLO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING USA on Aug. 12 for "Autonomous driving vehicle redundant holding control to prevent rolling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,371, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to APOLLO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Autonomous driving vehicle redundant holding control to prevent rolling" was invented by Baoping Yuan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yun Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yaoming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is received from a plurality of sensors mounted on an ADV being held to a standstill. A status of the ADV including a rolling speed of the ADV is detected based on the data from the plurality of sensors. One of a primary brake or a secondary brake is activated, in response to detecting the status of the ADV being a firs...