ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,386, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling autonomous vehicle, and autonomous vehicle" was invented by Wei Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle including: obtaining trip information of a current trip of a user of the autonomous vehicle and historical traffic information related to the current trip; selecting an autonomous driving (AD) mode that is suitable for the current trip from a plurality of pre-defined AD modes; comparing time required for the autonomous vehicle to complete a portion of the current trip in the sele...