US Patent Issued to Motional on March 25 for "Processing a request signal regarding operation of an autonomous vehicle" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,029, issued on March 25, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Processing a request signal regarding operation of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Harshavardhan Ravichandran (Singapore), Karl Iagnemma (Cambridge, Mass.) and Eric Wolff (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory to reach a target location based on a request received from an occupant of the vehicle t...