ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,477, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Courtesy lane selection paradigm" was invented by Adam Shoemaker (Blacksburg, Va.), John Blankenhorn (Blacksburg, Va.), Garrett Madsen (Blacksburg, Va.), Joshua Petrin (Blacksburg, Va.), Ajay Tulsyan (Blacksburg, Va.), Paul Brown (Blacksburg, Va.), Savio Pereira (Blacksburg, Va.), William Davis (Blacksburg, Va.), Daniel Fernandez (Blacksburg, Va.) and Yexuan Hao (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein include systems and methods of generating lane selection cost values to control autonomous vehicles to accommodate merging vehicle...