ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,212, issued on July 8, was assigned to EMBARK TRUCKS INC. (San Francisco).

"Lane change determination for vehicle on shoulder" was invented by Mark Liu (San Francisco) and Roya Sabbagh Novin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method that can control a speed of an autonomous vehicle when approaching a vehicle on a shoulder based on a piecewise linear function. Further, the system and method may determine whether to perform a lane change based on various factors. In one example, the method may include storing a piecewise linear function, detecting a vehicle on a shoulder (VOS) of a road based on senso...