US Patent Issued to Zenseact on Nov. 18 for "Transitioning to an unsupervised autonomous driving mode of an ADS" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,990, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zenseact AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Transitioning to an unsupervised autonomous driving mode of an ADS" was invented by Peter Harda (Torslanda, Sweden) and Mattias Brannstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving mode transitioning system and method for supporting transitioning to an unsupervised autonomous driving mode of an Automated Driving System, ADS, of a vehicle. The driving mode transitioning system obtains vehicle situational data indicating a state of vehicle surroundings along with position and heading of the vehicle; determines based on the obtained vehicle sit...