ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,230, issued on June 3, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
"Preventing a movement of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Janine Guenther (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Nicolai Spohrer (Stuttgart, Germany), Lucas Volkert (Tiefenbronn, Germany) and Florian Flerlage (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for preventing a movement of an at least partially autonomously drivable vehicle in an autonomous driving mode includes an actuator where an immobilization function of the at least partially autonomously drivable vehicle is activatable or deactivatable by the actuator. The act...