US Patent Issued to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling a vehicle with redundant braking systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,490, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling a vehicle with redundant braking systems" was invented by Baoping Yuan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yaoming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein comprise monitoring factors related to braking of an autonomous vehicle. In response to determining, based upon data from one or more sensors, whether a failure state from a set of one or more failure states has occurred, a failure log is updated to record the occurrence of the detected failure state. In one or mo...