US Patent Issued to Motional on Nov. 25 for "Autonomous vehicle yielding" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,471, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Autonomous vehicle yielding" was invented by Noushin Mehdipour (Allston, Mass.), Ji Hyun Jeong (Somerville, Mass.), Amitai Y. Bin-Nun (Pittsburgh), Paul Schmitt (Merrimack, N.H.) and Radboud Duintjer Tebbens (Newton Center, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for autonomous vehicle yielding, which can include obtaining sensor data associated with an environment and obtaining a rule indicative of a target expressive operation. Some methods described also include determining whether the sensor data meets a first criterion, applying the rule in resp...