US Patent Issued to Stack AV on April 15 for "Behaviors that reduce demand on autonomous follower vehicles" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,404, issued on April 15, was assigned to Stack AV Co. (Mount Pleasant, Pa.).

"Behaviors that reduce demand on autonomous follower vehicles" was invented by Michael David George (Pittsburgh), Tekin Alp Mericli (Pittsburgh), Cetin Alp Mericli (Pittsburgh), Venkataramanan David Rajagopalan (Sewickley, Pa.) and Alonzo James Kelly (Edgeworth, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus that reduce demands on behavior of autonomous vehicles operating in a convoy, such as lane following or leader swap. A follower vehicle receives information regarding a path that a leader vehicle has followed. The follower generally follows the ...