US Patent Issued to CreateAI on March 3 for "Detecting a construction zone by a lead autonomous vehicle (AV) and updating routing plans for following AVs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,235, issued on March 3, was assigned to CreateAI Inc. (San Diego).

"Detecting a construction zone by a lead autonomous vehicle (AV) and updating routing plans for following AVs" was invented by Robert Patrick Brown (San Diego), Scott Douglas Foster (San Diego) and Joyce Tam (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a sensor configured to observe a field of view in front of the lead AV. Following AVs are on the same road behind the lead AV. A processor of the lead AV is configured to detect a construction zone. The processor sends a first message to an operation server, indicating that ...