US Patent Issued to Ryan McLean on Jan. 27 for "Autonomous urban transport vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,109, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ryan McLean (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Autonomous urban transport vehicle" was invented by Ryan McLean (Pasadena, Calif.), Gregg Luconi (Monrovia, Calif.), William Tod Gross (Pasadena, Calif.) and Maximilian Zavodny (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous urban transport vehicle (AUTV) to transport a user, including a tricycle including brakes and steering and a controller. The controller includes an autonomous mode processor to control the brakes and steering when the AUTV is in an autonomous mode. The controller also includes a manual mode processor to control manual mode fun...