US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Aug. 5 for "Method and system for keeping a vehicle on a predetermined path, and computer program" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,844, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for keeping a vehicle on a predetermined path, and computer program" was invented by Alexander Eriksson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Klara Essman (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Fredrika Zeidler (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for keeping a vehicle on a predetermined path. The method comprises receiving a driver pose information and classifying the driver pose information as normal or abnormal (S1). Alternatively or additionally, a driver attention information is received and classified as normal or a...