ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,884, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Implementing slowdown manoeuvres in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Alexandre Silva (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Alejandro Bordallo (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Steffen Jaekel (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of determining control signals for controlling an autonomous vehicle to implement a slowdown manoeuvre, comprising: detecting an obstacle at a distance ahead of the autonomous vehicle; comparing the distance with a threshold value and implementing a slowdown manoeuvre in dependence on the co...