US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 29 for "Protolanes for testing autonomous vehicle intent" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,052, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Protolanes for testing autonomous vehicle intent" was invented by George Peter Kenneth Carr (Allison Park, Pa.), Andrew Hartnett (West Hartford, Conn.), Nikolai Popov (Munich), Brett Browning (Pittsburgh), Peter W. Rander (Mars, Pa.) and Michael Pacilio (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for testing autonomous vehicle intent using protolanes. For example, the method includes selecting a first lane segment of a roadway within a geonet, wherein the geonet comprises a ...