ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,315, issued on May 27, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods to obtain feedback in response to autonomous vehicle failure events" was invented by Molly Castle Nix (San Francisco), Sean Chin (Pittsburgh) and Dennis Zhao (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods to obtain feedback descriptive of autonomous vehicle failures. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can detect that a vehicle failure event occurred at an autonomous vehicle and, in response, provide an interactive user interface that enables a human located with...