ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,259, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Stack AV Co. (Mount Pleasant, Pa.).
"Autonomous vehicles with semi-autonomous follower mode" was invented by Brett Browning (Mount Pleasant, Pa.), Mark Ollis (Pittsburgh), Albert Costa (Pittsburgh), Dale Lord (Gibsonia, Pa.), Bryan Scott Salesky (Pittsburgh) and Peter William Rander (Mars, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary vehicle comprises: one or more sensors; one or more processors; and one or more computer readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the vehicle to: operate in an autonomous driving mode, wherein an operation in the...