US Patent Issued to Commuter Cars on April 22 for "Autonomous narrow vehicle lane sharing, filtering, and splitting system" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,783, issued on April 22, was assigned to Commuter Cars Corp. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Autonomous narrow vehicle lane sharing, filtering, and splitting system" was invented by Richard Winston Woodbury (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for dividing a lane into a first virtual lane and a second virtual lane are described. A narrow track vehicle may determine that the narrow track vehicle is traversing a lane that is at least 10 feet wide. The narrow track vehicle may divide the lane into a first virtual lane and a second virtual lane and traverse one of the first virtual lane or the second virtual lane based at least in...