US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for operating an autonomous vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,831, issued on Sept. 23, 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 example method includes detecting, via sensor data collected from sensors located on the AV, an upcoming object located on a roadway. The method further includes determining, from the sensor data, a relative distance and a relative direction of the upcoming object with respect to the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes mapping...