US Patent Issued to VOLVO AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS on Oct. 20 for "Routing of an autonomous vehicle to arrive at a target time of arrival" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,178, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VOLVO AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Routing of an autonomous vehicle to arrive at a target time of arrival" was invented by Ribero Raphael (Millery, France), Da Rocha Mathilde (Diemoz, France) and Quibriac Yann (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for routing an autonomous vehicle from a start location to a target destination location via a set of road segments is provided. The method includes determining at least two candidate routes comprising a respective subset of the set of road segments. Each of the at least two candidate routes indicates how the autonom...