US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on May 13 for "Methods and apparatus for controlling autonomous vehicles" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,763, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for controlling autonomous vehicles" was invented by Christopher Cacioppo (Somerville, Mass.) and Corey Simons (Merrimac, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for making autonomous vehicle handover decisions are described. A handover decision involves deciding if an autonomous vehicle should be handed off from one worker to another worker. The methods allow for decisions to be made in real or near real time shortly before an autonomous vehicle changes location. Worker time, if a handover is not implemen...