US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on Aug. 26 for "Method and system for controlling a plurality of vehicles, in particular autonomous vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,511, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for controlling a plurality of vehicles, in particular autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jonas Hellgren (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Abdullah Mamun (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for controlling a plurality of vehicles sharing a set of common resources Each vehicle's motion is controllable by a finite set of predefined commands. The method includes forming subsets of the common resources on the basis of predefined motion constraints of individual ones of the vehicles; partitionin...