ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,850, issued on March 17, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Lane change system of autonomous vehicle" was invented by Dongsuk Kum (Daejeon, South Korea), Kibeom Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seul Bin Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a lane change system for an autonomous vehicle. A lane change method performed by a lane change system may include receiving driving state information of a vehicle and outputting a path and velocity plan corresponding to the input driving state information of the vehicle by using a lane change algorithm. The ...