US Patent Issued to Cybernet Systems on May 13 for "Autonomous vehicles and methods of zone driving" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,778, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cybernet Systems Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Autonomous vehicles and methods of zone driving" was invented by Glenn J. Beach (Grass Lake, Mich.), Douglas Haanpaa (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Charles J. Jacobus (Brighton, Mich.) and Steven Rowe (Grass Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles are capable of executing missions that abide by on-street rules or regulations, while also being able to seamlessly transition to and from "zones," including off-street zones, with their our set(s) of rules or regulations. An on-board memory stores roadgraph information. An on-board computer is op...