US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on June 17 for "Autonomous vehicle navigation in response to an oncoming train on a railroad track" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,682, issued on June 17, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Autonomous vehicle navigation in response to an oncoming train on a railroad track" was invented by Hunter Scott Willoughby (San Diego), Dishi Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yufei Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device associated with an autonomous vehicle receives sensor data and detects that the autonomous vehicle is approaching a railroad crossing based on the sensor data. The control device determines a target lane to travel while crossing the railroad. The target lane is a lane that has available space with at least a length of the autonomous...