US Patent Issued to Applied Intuition on Aug. 18 for "Transitioning to an autonomous driving mode using an operator control history" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,305, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Applied Intuition Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Transitioning to an autonomous driving mode using an operator control history" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Volkmar Uhlig (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transitioning to an autonomous driving mode using an operator control history, including: storing, during an operator control of an autonomous vehicle, an operator control history; and generating, in response to entering an autonomous driving mode and based on the operator control history, one or more control operations for the autonomous vehicle."

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