US Patent Issued to Oxa Autonomy on Nov. 3 for "Controlling an autonomous vehicle" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,254, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oxa Autonomy Ltd (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Controlling an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Horia Porav (Oxford, Great Britain), Ben Upcroft (Oxford, Great Britain), Paul Newman (Oxford, Great Britain) and Alex Stewart (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method of controlling an autonomous vehicle. The method comprises: receiving current sensor data defining a current scenario; determining a distance between the current scenario and a closest scenario from a database of known scenarios; and controlling the autonomous vehi...