US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Dec. 9 for "Wireless control system for autonomous vehicles operating in an extended area" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,290, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Wireless control system for autonomous vehicles operating in an extended area" was invented by Jonas Hagerskans (Landvetter, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless control system comprises a plurality of local stations linked by a communication network. Each local station transmits, in a respective radio coverage area, an enduring status signal. An autonomous vehicle is authorized to move while it receives the status signal. When an emergency stop switch of the local station is activated, the local station interrupts its transmission of the statu...