ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,770, issued on March 31, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Safety controller for automated driving" was invented by Mufaddal Zahid Bharmal (Farmington Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a safety control framework for automated driving systems in which a second controller-with different/diverse hardware and/or software than the first controller-verifies whether a path plan generated by the first controller meets certain safety conditions and preempts the first controller from controlling automated driving of the host vehicle in response to determining that the path plan does not...