US Patent Issued to Applied Minds on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for centralized control of autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,289, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Applied Minds LLC (Burbank, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for centralized control of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Bran Ferren (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for centralized control of autonomous vehicles. In some embodiments, a system and method allow an autonomous control system on-board an autonomous vehicle to pass control of the autonomous vehicle to an offboard panel of experts upon encountering an anomaly. In some embodiments, a system and method allow a regulatory entity to proactively distribute rules and requiremen...