US Patent Issued to GLYDWAYS on April 29 for "Braking and signaling schemes for autonomous vehicle system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,099, issued on April 29, was assigned to GLYDWAYS INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Braking and signaling schemes for autonomous vehicle system" was invented by Patrick Kessler (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decelerating a plurality of vehicles along a roadway may include, at a first vehicle, receiving, from an adjacent downstream vehicle, a first braking initiation signal and a first deceleration value indicating a deceleration rate of the adjacent downstream vehicle, determining a first distance to the adjacent downstream vehicle, and determining, based at least in part on the first distan...