US Patent Issued to Edge Case Research on Feb. 3 for "Environment monitoring device for an autonomous vehicle that performs different vehicle responses based on violation of a plurality of safety envelopes" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,887, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Edge Case Research Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Environment monitoring device for an autonomous vehicle that performs different vehicle responses based on violation of a plurality of safety envelopes" was invented by Philip J. Koopman Jr. (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Human supervisor failures in autonomous system operations are detected. Perception sensor data input is obtained from a sensor. A violation of a safety envelope by at least one external object is detected within the perception sensor data input. A response to the violation of the safety envelope is triggered. The safety envelope...