US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on June 16 for "Safeguarded tele-operation for autonomous driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,774, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Safeguarded tele-operation for autonomous driving" was invented by Mark Fischer (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Viju James (Fremont, Calif.), Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.), Julie D. Wright (San Jose, Calif.) and Liam Pedersen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a video stream from a camera of a vehicle in a transportation network. The system may also receive an input indicating an acceleration and a steering angle of a simulated lead vehicle. The system may determine a pose of the simulated vehicle relative to a ho...