ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,693, issued on June 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Safety control method and apparatus for autonomous driving assistance system" was invented by Ashton Sun (Jiangsu, China), Jingyao Zhang (Jiangsu, China) and Peng Ge (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety control method for an autonomous driving assistance system includes: receiving a status signal regarding a driver so as to determine a reasonably foreseeable indirect misuse (RFIM) event; receiving a particular system event and/or system fault; and calculating, with reference to a degree of severity of the particular system event and/or...