ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,510, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling a driving operation of an autonomously controlled vehicle" was invented by Kristoffer Tagesson (Hammaro, Sweden), Thorsten Helfrich (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Mats Jonasson (Partille, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls a driving operation of an autonomously controlled vehicle. The vehicle has an angular velocity sensor for controlling the vehicle's lateral positioning along an operated road path during a loss of location situation. The method obtains a signal indicative of a characteristic of a road p...