ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,390, issued on April 1, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Autonomous vehicle safe stop" was invented by Moslem Kazemi (Allison Park, Pa.) and Sameer Bardapurkar (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices for operating an autonomous vehicle are provided. For example, the disclosed technology can include receiving state data that includes information associated with states of an autonomous vehicle and an environment external to the autonomous vehicle. Responsive to the state data satisfying vehicle stoppage criteria, vehicle stoppage cond...