US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on Sept. 9 for "Visibility condition determinations for autonomous driving operations" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,861, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Visibility condition determinations for autonomous driving operations" was invented by John E. Panttila (Tucson, Ariz.), Zhujia Shi (San Diego), Riad I. Hammoud (San Diego) and Arda Kurt (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for determining visibility conditions of an environment in which an autonomous vehicle is operated and performing driving related operations based on the visibility conditions. An example method of adjusting driving related operations of a vehicle includes determining, by a computer located in an autonomous vehicle, ...