US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on March 3 for "Method for controlling autonomous vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,236, issued on March 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for controlling autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yoo-Seung Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Shin-Kyung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyoung-Wook Min (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Jeong-Dan Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of controlling an autonomous vehicle driving in a lane of a main line. The method may include determining whether the autonomous vehicle is driving in a target lane to accommodate merging traffic, determining whether a merge request message is...