US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Autonomous driving road space reservation and adaption" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,404, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Autonomous driving road space reservation and adaption" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Vinod A. Valecha (Pune, India), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provides for a method of autonomous driving road space reservation and adaption. The method includes determining a target location of a first vehicle. Road space is reserved for the first vehicle at the target location. The reserved road space of the first vehicle is comm...