US Patent Issued to Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus for determining road surface adhesion coefficient, and autonomous driving vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,861, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for determining road surface adhesion coefficient, and autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Yuelei Gao (Beijing), Yun Zhao (Beijing), Zhihua Yu (Beijing), Yanfu Zhang (Beijing) and Zhenmin Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining a road surface adhesion coefficient are provided. The method includes: determining, based on M state parameters of a vehicle on a target road section, M road surface adhesion coefficient estimation results respectively correspond...