ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,868, issued on July 8, was assigned to APOLLO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Firmware over-the-air (FOTA) failure reduction for autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Qiang Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manjiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Congshi Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes a computer network that includes at least one wireless gateway. The ADV also includes a plurality of network components coupled to the computer network, the plurality of network components including a target device. The ADV also includes a processor, configured to receive...