US Patent Issued to VOLVO AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS on May 20 for "Method for controlling an autonomous vehicle operating at a worksite" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,362, issued on May 20, was assigned to VOLVO AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling an autonomous vehicle operating at a worksite" was invented by Linus Eklund (Kullavik, Sweden), Jimmie Wiklander (Vasteras, Sweden) and Johan Sjoberg (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling an autonomous vehicle in a worksite. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a predetermined trajectory of a work sequence of the autonomous vehicle, the predetermined trajectory including at least a set path and a set speed; adding a pre-defined variation to the predeter...