US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Nov. 25 for "Emergency vehicle detection for autonomous vehicle" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,353, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Emergency vehicle detection for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Brian Baumgartner (San Francisco), Nemanja Djuric (Pittsburgh) and Niels Joubert (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleassist system may be used to assist with detecting and responding to an emergency vehicle present within an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The teleassist system can help confirm whether the emergency vehicle is active or inactive based on evaluating sensor data that is captured by one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle and that is associated ...