US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNVIERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Method and system for controlling autonomous vehicles" (South Korean, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,924, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNVIERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for controlling autonomous vehicles" was invented by Shehzad Ali (Seoul, South Korea), Md Tanvir Islam (Seoul, South Korea), Ik Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Khan Muhammad (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle includes capturing video data of an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle. The method includes detecting a state of a traffic light and identifying whether the state is a flashing sig...