US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on Jan. 20 for "Path selection for a vehicle based on heat distributed on a road surface" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,503, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Path selection for a vehicle based on heat distributed on a road surface" was invented by Fredrik Sandblom (Molndal, Sweden), Linus Hagvall (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Stefan Bergquist (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system comprising a processor device configured to select a candidate path for a first vehicle to travel is provided. The processor device is further configured to obtain, from at least one temperature sensor, heat sensor data indicative of heat distributed on a road surface of a road located ahead of t...