ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,547, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AUTOBRAINS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Safe transfer between manned and autonomous driving modes" was invented by Igal Raichelgauz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Karina Odinaev (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for safe transfer between manned and autonomous driving modes, the method may include detecting, based on first sensed information sensed during a first period, a situation related to an environment of the autonomous vehicle; searching for one or more matching concepts of a group of reference concepts, to which the situation belongs, each reference concept of...