US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on July 15 for "Systems and methods for operating an autonomous vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,526, issued on July 15, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for operating an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Scott Douglas Foster (San Diego), Erik Orlando Portillo (Sterling, Calif.), Zhujia Shi (San Diego) and Joyce Tam (Pleasanton, Calif.).

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 statues for performing safe driving operation. An example method for operating an AV includes receiving, by a computer located in the AV, sensor data that indicates a condition of one or more devices in the AV or of a roadway on w...