ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,080, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to EMBOTECH AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method and system for controlling autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle" was invented by Manuel Dangel (Zurich, Switzerland), Markus Stephan Hug (Zurich, Switzerland), Stefano Longo (Zurich, Switzerland) and Alexander Domahidi (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to computer-implemented method for controlling an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. A vehicle model is provided and information describing a roadway (301) is obtained. This information is transformed in a Frenet-Serret frame, which defines a curvi...