US Patent Issued to Volvo Autonomous Solutions on July 7 for "Control system and method for manoeuvring an automated vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,686, issued on July 7, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Control system and method for manoeuvring an automated vehicle" was invented by Wilhelm Wiberg (Askim, Sweden) and Oskar Ljungqvist (Satila, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a control system for manoeuvring an automated vehicle, wherein the control system comprises one or more obstacle detection sensors which are configured to detect if an intended travelling path of the automated vehicle is free from obstacles or not during manoeuvring of the automated vehicle, and wherein the control system is further configured...