ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,255, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Control method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Yi Meng (Beijing), Hideki Endo (Hitachinaka, Japan), Xiangzan Meng (Beijing), Yasuhiro Fuse (Tokyo) and Seiya Katou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is provided for an autonomous driving vehicle in a restricted area. The control apparatus can acquire state information of a moving object in the restricted area. The moving object includes a non-autonomous moving object and an autonomous driving vehicle, and the non-autonomous movin...