ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,404, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZENSEACT AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for managing a user demand-based operational design domain expansion for an automated driving system of a vehicle" was invented by Ali Nouri (Gothenburg, Sweden), Behnam Safakhah (Savedalen, Sweden) and Hakan Sivencrona (Jorlanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing user demand-based Operational Design Domain (ODD) expansion for an Automated Driving System (ADS) of a vehicle is presented. The method includes: requesting an ODD verification completion rate for each of a plurality of road segments by transferring a request from the...