ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,978, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Automotive Research & Testing Center (Changhua County, Taiwan).

"Minimum risk decision system and method for lane-changing and non-transitory computer readable media" was invented by Hao-Che Chang (Changhua County, Taiwan), Tsung-Ming Hsu (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Shou-Ti Cheng (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A minimum risk decision system for lane-changing includes at least one processor. The processor includes an external risk region calculating module, a system failure judging module, a self-driving starting condition confirming module, and a decision module. Th...