US Patent Issued to APPLIED INTUITION on Feb. 18 for "Disengagement of an autonomous driving mode based on vehicle operating conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,210, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to APPLIED INTUITION INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Disengagement of an autonomous driving mode based on vehicle operating conditions" was invented by Aaron Carroll (Mountain View, Calif.), Justin Erickson (San Francisco), Mario Delgado (San Francisco), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Volkmar Uhlig (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disengagement of an autonomous driving mode based on vehicle operating conditions, including: receiving, from a steering torque sensor, torque sensor data indicating an amount of torque applied to a steering system of an autonomous vehicle; determ...