ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,761, issued on March 31, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Vehicle control system" was invented by Morgan D. Jones (Pittsburgh), Michael John Dacko (Oakmont, Pa.) and Brian Thomas Kirby (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling a failover response of an autonomous vehicle are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes determining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, an operational mode of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is configured to operate in at least a first operational mode in which a human driver is present in the...