US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Oct. 21 for "Algorithm for the AV to safely respond to a cut-in vehicle" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,003, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Algorithm for the AV to safely respond to a cut-in vehicle" was invented by Travis Reese McCawley (Seattle) and Christopher Charles Ward (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining a required following behavior when a road actor or vehicle cuts in front of an autonomous vehicle. The appropriate following behavior depends on various factors including road and weather conditions, recovery time gap, minimum time gap for the autonomous vehicle speed, distance between the autonomous vehicle and cut-in ve...