US Patent Issued to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA on June 17 for "Failsafe braking systems with independent braking actuations for autonomous or assisted driving vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,618, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Failsafe braking systems with independent braking actuations for autonomous or assisted driving vehicles" was invented by Baoping Yuan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yaoming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems and methods for providing a failsafe braking system to independently backup various braking controls, such as longitudinal control, stability control, and standstill control. For example, in addition to providing the longitudinal control, the stability control, and the standstill control i...