US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on July 29 for "Method and device for coordinating vehicle routes in confined areas" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,061, issued on July 29, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and device for coordinating vehicle routes in confined areas" was invented by Stefan Kojchev (Molndal, Sweden), Robert Hult (Torslanda, Sweden) and Oskar Wigstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Confined areas present an opportunity for early deployment of autonomous vehicles due to the absence of non-controlled traffic participants. In this disclosure, two approaches for coordination of multiple AVs in confined sites. Each approach computes speed-profiles for the AVs such that collisions are avoided in cross interse...