US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 17 for "Deadlock precaution and prevention for autonomous vehicles" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,888, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Deadlock precaution and prevention for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Yuan Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for deadlock precaution and prevention in autonomous vehicles (AVs) includes: AVs having actuators and sensors. The actuators alter a dynamic state of the AVs, and the sensors capture vehicle state and environmental information. The system receives vehicle state information and predicts a host AV trajectory, and trajectories of other vehicles approaching, entering, or within an intersection. Multi-directional c...