US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 24 for "State estimation and response to active school vehicles in a self-driving system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,869, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"State estimation and response to active school vehicles in a self-driving system" was invented by John Russell Lepird (Pittsburgh), Patrick Stirling Barone (Saratoga, Calif.) and Alexander Wah Tak Metz (Bavaria, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product embodiments for estimating the state of a school transportation vehicle. For example, the method includes capturing sensor data that includes information about an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The method further includes detecting a ...