ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,215, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Takeover of vehicle control" was invented by Daniel Bauer (Berlin), Peter W. A. Zegelaar (Heerlen, Netherlands), Guido Weitkus (Cologne, Germany), Andreas Puetz (Kelmis, Belgium), Patrick Piastowski (Herne, Germany) and Benjamin Maus (Dusseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Practicing a takeover of vehicle control of a vehicle 100 from an autonomous mode includes generating a takeover command for performing the takeover of the vehicle control without the existence of a reason for a takeover, and outputting the takeover command to a d...