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US 11738765
Controlling driving modes of self-driving vehicles
Current assignee: Tesla, Inc.
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US 11,738,765 B2
Title: Controlling driving modes of self-driving vehicles
Patent number: US11738765B2
Application number: US17/374,656
Inventors: Michael S. Gordon; James R. Kozloski; Ashish Kundu; Peter K. Malkin; Clifford A. Pickover
Original assignee: Slingshot IoT LLC
Current assignee (per listing): Granite Vehicle Ventures LLC
Priority date: 2015-09-25
Filing date: 2021-07-13
Publication date: 2023-08-29
Legal status: Active; adjusted expiration 2035-11-24
Other version: US20220001885A1
Classifications: B60W50/08, B60W50/12, B60W60/005, B60W60/0059, G05D1/0055, G05D1/0061, G05D1/81, B60W40/06, B60W40/08, B60W2050/0072, among others
Purpose and plain-language scope. Based only on the supplied excerpt, the patent concerns controlling driving modes of self-driving vehicles ("SDV"). The listed prior-art keywords—"sdv," "determining," "fault," "driver," and "corrective action"—indicate subject matter directed to determining a fault and taking corrective action involving the driver. Classifications point to interaction between driver and control system, limiting driver control depending on vehicle state, handover between automatic and manual control, estimating risk associated with autonomous or manual driving (e.g., sensor failure or driver incapacity), and road/ambient-condition and driver-related parameter estimation. The excerpt does not reproduce any claim language, so the precise claimed scope cannot be stated from this source alone.
What the excerpt does not establish. This overview is limited to the supplied Google Patents source text. It does not establish the claims, specification content, embodiments, or figures; it does not establish validity, patentability, enforceability, or the accuracy of the listed assignees, dates, or legal status; and it does not establish prior art or litigation details beyond incidental metadata references. No independent research beyond the supplied text was performed, and no missing facts have been inferred.
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Cases on file (2)
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Current assignee: Tesla, Inc.
No PTAB proceedings on file. This patent has not been challenged via IPR, PGR, or CBM. The absence is itself a signal — well-asserted patents eventually attract IPRs. The LLM analysis below may surface filings the ODP feed hasn’t indexed yet.
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Assignment history
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Prior art
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Obviousness
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