US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on June 17 for "System and method for granting access to an autonomous vehicle" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,588, issued on June 17, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"System and method for granting access to an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yu-Ju Hsu (Tucson, Ariz.) and Xiaoling Han (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for granting access to an autonomous vehicle comprises the autonomous vehicle, a control device, and a communication device associated with the autonomous vehicle. The communication device receives a signal from a device associated with a user that indicates the user requests the autonomous vehicle to pull over. The control device pulls the autonomous vehicle over to a side of road traveled by th...