ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,062, issued on July 29, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for autonomous vehicle control" was invented by Amir Yazdani (Mountain View, Calif.), Apeksha Kumavat (Mountain View, Calif.), Gautam Narang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Arjun Narang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining scene risk for an autonomous vehicle includes receiving scene data, predicting risk scores using a trained risk prediction model, determining an appropriate autonomous vehicle behavior based on these risk scores, and controlling the vehicle accordingly. In some implementations, the...