US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Method for controlling a maximum allowed speed of an autonomous vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,474, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling a maximum allowed speed of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Stefan Bergquist (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Linus Hagvall (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first sensor performance level is used during driving where a vehicle is allowed to drive with a first maximum allowed speed, and while utilizing the first sensor performance level, simultaneously monitoring a rate of false positive object detections for a second sensor performance level which is associated with a second maximum allowed speed which...