US Patent Issued to AMPERE on March 24 for "Method for controlling an autonomous vehicle" (Spanish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,476, issued on March 24, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Method for controlling an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Nievsabel Molina Ramos (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Vicente Milanes (Madrid), David Gonzalez Bautista (Saint Cyr l'Ecole, France), Irene Cortes Lafuente (Saragossa, Spain) and Armando Astudillo Olalla (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls an autonomous vehicle equipped with at least one perception unit and a first map including stored digital data representing the actual infrastructure of the environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes defining a fir...