US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 16 for "State estimation and response to active school vehicles in a self-driving system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,740, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"State estimation and response to active school vehicles in a self-driving system" was invented by John Russell Lepird (Pittsburgh), Patrick Stirling Barone (Saratoga, Calif.) and Alexander Wah Tak Metz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses system, method, and computer program product embodiments for anticipating an imminent state of a school transportation vehicle. For example, the method includes receiving sensor data of an environment near an autonomous vehicle. The method further includes, in response to the sensor dat...