ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,206, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).
"Systems and methods for operating an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Scott Douglas Foster (San Diego), Dishi Li (Menifee, Calif.), Hunter Scott Willoughby (San Diego) and Yufei Zhao (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statutes for performing safe driving operation. An example method includes detecting that a group of motorcycles is operating on a roadway on which the AV is located. The group of motorcycles are each located within a pre-determined distan...