ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,018, issued on March 25, was assigned to FERRARI S.p.A. (Modena, Italy).
"Vehicle control method with exit intention recognition" was invented by Giovanni Russo (Modena, Italy) and Andrea Secondi (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method to control a vehicle driving along a main road having a plurality of detours. The control method exhibits the steps of: recognising a road surface marking present on a surface of the main road; recognising a road sign present beside the main road in order to determine possible speed limits set by the road sign; establishing whether a speed limit set by a road sign refers to the ...